PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eye Tracking, Magnetoencephalography, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Associated functions? the brain stem located in the centre of the skull need to be protected the most medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain thalamus cerebellum limbic system. Hippocampus store hypothetic memories key to creating mental maps processing conscious, episodic memories working w/amygdala to form emotionally charged memories will create new synopsis throughout your life creates new connections how memories we store are represented at a neuro level. 1953 epilepsy in the medial temporal lobes severe seizures which threatened his life almost complete removal of the hippocampus and amygdala caused anterograde amnesia short term memory intact no new long term memories could never readjust to new environments extremely painful existence implicit memories intact walking new movements managed to learn playing piano due to the way the info was stored. What are the functional divisions of the cortex? frontal lobe speech, movement judgement parietal lobes (top) sensory info touch and body position occipital lobes (back of head) visual info temporal lobe auditory info.