PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Limbic System, Pituitary Gland, Reduced Affect Display
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Primary sensory strip (in parietal: anytime anything touches you it stimulates the primary sensory strip. Touches on left side = right strip, touches on right side = left strip. Even something like pain is the construct of the mind: developed normally (gone through life with normal sensory input) Damage to the sensory strip you won"t feel anything from that portion of the. What should you do a lot of thinking & planning, high level human activity. Damage to the motor area of frontal cortex causes paralysis of the associated body where the sensory strip controlled motor function in the opposite side of the body. Meet your homunculi have to do devoted to hands. Damage to the pre-frontal cortex (eg. frontal lobotomies) causes very complex and interesting effects including: Frontal lobotomies: severing their connections in the brains frontal lobe (put something up nose), results were making people calm (used for people in mental asylums)
