NROC69H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Allocortex, Frontal Lobe, Barrel Cortex
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> no conditioning, only exposure to a novel context: b: control - should be freezing, although decrease, but overlap of error bars means decrease may not have been significant. Hybrid representation may not be as salient, maybe interference. Integrate & interpret info derived from 1 sensory areas. Motivated decision making, emotional & autonomic responses, conscience, morality, social skills. Diff pfc regions contribute to diff types of working. Phineas gage: orbitofrontal leucotomy: died 13 yrs after accident, had some intact functions: working memory, loss in: inhibition, ability to plan ahead; he was epileptic, domain specificity theory memory, ventral pfc: object wm, dorsal pfc: spatial wm. 1 visual cortex -> inferotemporal lobe -> ventral pfc. 1 visual cortex -> posterior parietal -> dorsal pfc: pfc doesn"t real functional maturation until 15-19. Huge reorganization of wiring of pfc during age 15-19, why teenagers are being teenagers o.
