Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hemispatial Neglect, Fusiform Gyrus, Apraxia

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

Document Summary

Psych 1000- october 8 2015 read pg. Q: neuron a and neuron b synapse with neuron c. you are measuring the electrical activity in. Integrate and interpret: everything going on in the primary projection area, doesn"t always work. Neural disorder: apraxia: inability to perform smooth actions. Ex. cant pick up a book properly nothing wrong with muscles, command structure is not working can so small actions but cant string them together. Motor association center does not work: agnosia: inability to interpret sensory information. Info comes in but the brain does not know what it is. Fusiform gyrus responsible to help with recognition of faces and people: aphasia: speech. Difficulty in stringing words together, can"t talk in smooth sentences, telegraphic, coffee give me instead of please can you give me coffee . Left verbal: language, reading, logical thought. Right- non verbal: space, form synthesis emotion. Requires corpus colosum means of communication b/w two sides.