Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phenotype, Temporal Lobe, Premotor Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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The cortex is responsible for: motor association, somatosensory association, visual association, auditory association. They are all next door to one another and could possibly relate to one another. Integrate and interpret responsible for putting information together: apraxia, agnosia, aphasia, speech problem, if you have damage to an association area you create damage to the sense that. Prosopagnosia the inability to recognize faces (able to see fine but unable to recognize the face of the person) Happens when there is damage to the fusiform gyrus (under the brain) Broca"s aphasia unable to express yourself: difficulty stringing words together, often referred to as telegraphic speech, problems in frontal lobe (near the premotor area - premotor cortex forms words) Left brain is for verbal where you would find language (reading, logical thought, language) Right brain is nonverbal (space and form perception, emotions, synthesis)