COGS 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Frontal Lobe

• School: York University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 2160
• Professor: Jacob Beck

Document Summary

Lecture 6: milestones v two visual pathways. The cerebrum: the cerebrum is the largest part of the brain, the cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neurons. Involved in higher processes like memory, attention, language, perception. In the back of the head is the occipital lobe - first area of the cortex to receive input from retina: the parietal lobe integrates sensory information from vision, audition, and other sensory modalities. Involved in representing space: the home of the dorsal system, above the ear is the temporal lobe, contains the auditory cortex. Involved in processing of speech: sits over the hippocampus involved in long-term memory consolidation, home of the ventral system, at the front of the head is the frontal lobe. Two visual pathways: they process information from either visual field, both pathways begin in the occipital cortex, one pathway heads up into the parietal lobe - dorsal stream/pathway.