PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Entorhinal Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Parahippocampal Gyrus

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3265
• Professor: Norman Park

Document Summary

Highly processed information comes from association areas of the cortex. Info further processed by the parahippocampal region and hippocampus before being projected back to regions that provided the information. Sensory info ->primary cortical areas (e. g. , visual cortex) -> secondary and tertiary unimodal sensory regions -> multimodal association areas located in temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes as well as in cingulate area. Aside: background info about how sensory and motor processing makes its way to association areas. Motor ->primary cortical area (e. g. , motor cortex) ultimately projects to prefrontal and cingulate areas. Brain regions mediating declarative memory: flow of information. Association areas of the temporal -- object identification using info from multiple sensory modalities. Association areas parietal lobes process spatial info about visual and other sensory inputs. Prefrontal and cingulate areas process info about the significance of stimuli, rules of tasks, and plans for tasks. Each of these association areas provides input to the parahippocampal region.