Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dyslexia, Parallel Computing, Occipital Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Deanna Friesen

Document Summary

Lecture 2 psych 2135 cognitive neuroscience. Mind: cognitive processes both in and outside of awareness/consciousness. Allows invasive measures: brain lesioining, single cell recording, experimental control, difficulty generalizing to humans due to differences in brain morphology. Makes looking at a group data difficult. The challenge is there are no two lesions that are the same: brocas aphasia and wernickes aphasia, from a research perspective its hard bc not all the group is. Guy talked about two patients that both had difficulties, that they the same couldn"t speak but were very comprehensive: lala long could only say yes, no, always and 3. After he died, looked at damage in his brain. Found that there was an area in the frontal lobe that was lesioned brocas area (language production) Left inferior frontal gyrus: wernicke (fluent aphasia) Found that indiviudals who had damage to this area of the brain had trouble with language comprehension.