PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Thalamus, Dura Mater, Lateral Ventricles
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Lecture 2: psyb65 september 20th, 2010 chapters 2 and 14. As you move forward in the brain, the cortex is the newest evolutionarily. Territoriality: urinate on a tree humans still have this we have customs, flags, borders. its the same thing but these behaviours are just more complicated. Cerebral cortex: in greater detail: has lobes and is divided according to the functions, there are coverings (meninges: most of the brain is the cortex, there is planning, speech, visualization the cortex is. Not smooth (for humans) for other animals, it is. If you look at the top of the brain, the 2 sides of the brain are not connected from the top view, but they actually are connected. The brain is divided into two hemispheres (right and left). Longitudinal fissure is from the right to left. Central sulcus/fissure: divides the brain in half; it separates the frontal from the parietal (or anterior from the posterior)
