PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Scotoma, Postcentral Gyrus, Cortical Blindness
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The cerebral cortex: outer layer of cerebrum, learning, remembering, thinking, consciousness. Especially human characteristics large brains= and are dense: clicker: human cerevral cortex (outer layer) is approximately as big as: copy of metro paper. Needs fold- since it is very big then can fit into head. Will get more cortex into more space. Clicker: people are either mostly left-brained or mostly right brained: false, two hemispheres of brains specialized- do different things. We all use all of our brain br. The corpus callosum and hemispheric specialization: connection between hemispheres, each hemisphere primarily connected to opposite side of body, series of pathways- information passed between both sides of brain, each hemisphere is connected to opposite side of brain. Therefore, need corpus callosum to communicate information. More activation in left = for verbal, speech, writing, language processing (not rhythmic nature of speech: right hemisphere. Nonverbal processing, spatial task, music, visual recognition.
