PSYC 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Auditory Cortex, Verbal Memory, Spatial Ability
25 Nov 2017
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Dominance: (not actually analytical/artistic) general summary: left, language. Interpretation: verbal memory, right, spatial ability, emotional processing (for others as well, musical ability, non-verbal memory. What gets lateralized: more useful to consider it as individual components of cognitive elements, not broad categories. Anatomical asymmetries difficult to determine because of individual differences: common asymmetries, broca"s area (production of lang) (frontal operculum, wernicke"s area (lang comprehension) (planum temporale, primary auditory cortex (heschl"s gyrus, part of variation is due to experience. Emotion distinctive state of mind derived from persons circumstances, mood, or relationship with others. Learning emotional reactions to specific situations are partially the result of learned associations: perhaps one of the easiest learned emotion-associations to study is conditioned fear. Both direct and indirect pathways between the amygdala and medial geniculate nucleus of the thalamus. Stress state of mental or emotional strain or tension that results from adverse or very demanding circumstances: short term stress is adaptive but long term (chronic) stress is maladaptive.
