PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oliver Sacks, Prosopagnosia, Agnosia
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Localization of function (discovering broca"s area and it function for speech and language production) Cortex is the outside of the brain versus the midbrain which is the inside of the brain (primitive part of the brain, which is common in many animals) Corpus callosum connects the left and right brain. We differ from animals by having many cortex and cortex is wrinkled. Midbrain is the primitive part which is the reason for human instincts for danger, survival. We have the largest brain to body ratio. The cortex is wrinkled because it needs to fit in a smaller skull (evolution) We survived with our brain rather than through strength. We don"t want our skull to be too big (women would die during childbirth) Parietal, temporal, and occipital are about interpreting external input from the world. The frontal lobe is more about the output, acting on the world. The brain often uses right and left side of the brain.
