PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Occipital Lobe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

Lecture 2: occipital lobe is the visual cortex, temporal lobe some visual operations carried out in temporal lobe but they are more complex than the visual operations carried out in occipital lobe. Temporal lobe is the main site for auditory processing lots of other things in temporal lobe besides sensory processing. Part of the temporal lobe is involved in attention: prosopagnosia inability to recognize faces. Can recognize any other kind of object but not faces. Brocca"s area a speech production area in the frontal cortex, usually in the left hemisphere: wernicke found a speech understanding difficulty this became known as wernicke"s aphasia so having difficulty comprehending speech. Hes also given credit being among the first to explain what grey and white matter are and the relationship b/w them. Nucleus: what preserves the neuron and gives the neuron all the nutrients and lets it run, has all the information processing.