Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Motor Goal, Vestibular System, Secondary Somatosensory Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Organization of the cerebral cortex (brain,cortex, cerebrum) The cerebral cortex is composed of 4 lobes: parietal, occipital, temporal, and frontal. The corpus callosum connects the two cerebral hemispheres. Important reason for this is for inhibition, sometimes you want the right hemisphere to supress what the left hemisphere is doing. Why were so interested in different parts of the brain. This means, our central visual field, the regions of our brain when looking directly at something are better at seeing things then looking at the peripherals, which are sent to a smaller part in the brain. The blobs, represent a specific type of neuron that codes for shape, they look like blobs. Interspersed in between are interblobs and their task is to look at the orientation of an object. Really won this award for the technology that they developed. Parietal lobe: contains primary somatosensory cortex. Is a sensory to motor region of the brain.