Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fusiform Gyrus, Cerebral Cortex, Apraxia

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

Document Summary

Next time: heritability & disorders (scan pg. > inability to perform smooth actions (cannot string together movements to create one complete movement pick up water bottle) Inability to interpret sensory information (information in coming in properly but can"t understand what it means) Prosopagnosia (can"t recognize human faces) damage to fusiform gyrus which is part of the visual association area. Aphasia (speech: broca"s expressive, difficulty in stringing words together, telegraphic (frontal lobe, wenicke"s receptive, difficulty in understanding and stringing concepts together to decide if they make sense (temporal lobe) Left hemisphere is the verbal hemisphere (language, reading, logical thought) Right hemisphere is nonverbal (space & form, synthesis, emotion) Left visual field crosses to the right hemisphere primary visual cortex, right visual field crosses to the left hemisphere primary visual cortex. Nature (something we"re born with) vs. nurture (something we learn) Genes (dna) > rna > protein molecules (sequences of amino acids)