PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Optic Chiasm, Topographic Map, Temporal Lobe

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

Video two: improved speech ability and if you didn"t know that she had a stroke beforehand, you probably wouldn"t realize that she suffered from the aphasia. That area is still damaged but what we see here is plasticity of the brain. Things aren"t fixed and functional rather there is plasticity or flexibility. Other structures adopt to doing similar types of functions to compensate. Corpus callosum: massive fibre tissue that connects the two hemispheres and plays a central role in treatment for epilepsy. Video: the disconnection of the two hemispheres after the epileptic surgery in the case of joe. Language disorders tend to arise from left hemisphere damage. Broca and wernicke both stay in the left hemisphere. Optic nerve comes and connects to the optic chiasm in the brain. From there, we get paths down to each hemisphere. Each of our eye has a slightly different visual field.