AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Broca"s area responsible for speech production. Important for thinking, planning, and controlling impulses. Receive and interpret what we feel the smoothness of the whiteboard. The more precision that you need, the greater the cortex area that is dedicated to that. More precision needs for fingers and hands than what is needed for toes. Create associations between simple ideas and sensation. Damage to association cortex results in problems with: Can be specific to a sense, such as visual agnosia. Neglect syndrome ignoring half the visual world. Patient may shave half of their face. Prefrontal damage planning how you"re going to complete a task, strategic thinking, inhibition. The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. Used as a treatment for severe epilepsy. Limits communication between the left and right sides of the brain. Right hemisphere can only point or find the object, but the patient cannot verbalize what he sees.