PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Visual Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, Temporal Lobe
Document Summary
The cerebral cortex is the place where high level perception of the world occurs, and is also the place where controlled motor activities originate. In this sense, it is the place where all our controlled interactions with the external world occur. This contrasts with a number of more basic brain regions which are more devoted to monitoring and controlling internal behaviours and automatic responses to external stimuli. Interpreting sensation on the body input of the world. Primary cortex: direct sensory (or motor) connections. Association cortex: takes the raw stimulus and interpret it, via memory. Lateralization the notion that the brain is composed of separate hemispheres creating left and right sides of all cortical tissue, and sometimes the left and right have different priorities. Chapter 3. 2: association cortex in this area performs the function of providing an interface between visual input and memory allowing one to categorize visual images.
