PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Acetylcholine, Peripheral Nervous System, Central Nervous System

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Todays agenda: the central nervous system, the cortex a. i. Occipital, temporal, parietal, frontal lobes: left and right hemisphere specialization, the peripheral nervous system, practice questions, neurons in action, neurotransmitters. Figure 3. 6 organization of the human nervous system. Peripheral nervous system = anything outside brain and spine. Try to understand every part and its function terminology and function try. To understand what is happening in for ex the hindbrain the midbrain and. Occipital primary visual lobe, only place where you would actually recognize what you"re looking at. Parietal divided into to hemispheres (processes sensory information and interpreting visual information and processing language and mathematics. Temporal processing sensory inputs (primary auditory perception (listening)) Frontal motor functions, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behaviour. Illustration of the four lobes (pg 100: a) frontal lobes: motor cortex (pg 105) Ability to communicate and bond with one another. Differentiation of functions (see application section for critical appraisal)