Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Temporal Lobe, Peripheral Nervous System, Basal Ganglia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Ethics and responsibility: respect for persons, research ethics boards must review studies, based on tri-council policy statement. Forebrain (cerebral cortex, plus: limbic system, amygdala, cingulate gyrus, and hippocampus - deals primarily with emotions and impulses, hippocampus - memory formation -- linked with memory deficits, basal ganglia, may inhibit movement (associated w/ finger tap and dexterity) Neuroanatomy: temporal lobe - understanding auditory/verbal information, and verbal memory, parietal lobe - integrates sensory information from various sources; visuospatial processing, occipital lobe - center of visual processing. Frontal lobe - center of reasoning, control of emotions, impulse control, judgement, memory, problem solving, sexual/social behaviour: corpus callosum - allows both hemispheres to communicate. System in the body that sends message to the bodily organs via hormones: pituitary gland known as the "master gland, regulates metabolism, body temp and weight, etc, etc. Study of the structure and function of genes at a molecular level: genome wide linkage analysis, uses large samples of affected relative pairs.