PSYC 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tractography, Connectome, Connectomics
o Cerebellum
motor control and coordination, etc
o Subcortical Structures
Hypothalamus
lower level control
Hormones, etc.
Thalamus
information coming FROM the senses usually stops at the
thalamus
a kind of communication base between the cortical structures and
the subcortical structures
Basal Ganglia
Learning, motivation, motor control, etc.
Striatum
o Putamen and Caudate
voluntary movement
motor control
Globus pallidus
o voluntary movement
Nucleus accumbens
o Another important dopamine structure
Amygdala
located both INFRONT and INTOP of hippocampus
memory
o emotional events
Hippocampus
episodic long-term memory
Spatial navigation (closely tied to ^^^ "where am I? have I been
here before")
o Cerebral Cortex
Lobes
some boundaries are clear, others are NOT
Highly unrelated?? structures
Frontal
Occipital
Temporal
Parietal
Sulci
the valleys of the brain
Lateral (Sylvian) Fissures
Separates temporal lobe from frontal lobe
Central Sulcus
Separates parietal lobe form frontal lobe