Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Growth Cone, White Matter, Grey Matter

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Developmental origins: beginning to impact the inside of the skull, which causes the surface of the brain to fold, these folds form sulci (deep grooves) that mark the surface of the brain, signals are ultimately going to travel up to the cortex for more differentiated processing, through the thalamus, forebrain has grown and become cerebral hemispheres, covering both cerebral hemispheres is thin layer of brain matter (collection of neurons) that form the cerebral cortex. Slide 22: cerebral cortex is a specialized part of the brain, functional specialization, e. g. , helping us to solve simple arithmetic problems, classify sounds we hear (what the sound is and where the sound originates from), processing different colours, shapes, directions of motions, etc. , detection of odours, enact motor behaviours, and to situate ourselves in time (duration, these functions appear to be localized to some degree, how does that specialization of function emerge over the course of development, courses of nature.