PSYC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corpus Callosum, Basal Ganglia, Parietal Lobe

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2010
• Professor: Murphy

Document Summary

Coordination of reflexes; carries sensory information to brain and motor signals away from the brain. Connects the brain to the rest of the body: brain stem. Extension of spinal cord; houses structures that control survival functions (heart rate, breathing, swallowing, vomiting, etc. : hemispheres, corpus callosum. Connects left and right hemisphere, allows them to communicate: gray matter. Dominated by cell bodies, dendrites and body of neurons: white matter. Consists mostly of axons and the myelin sheaths that surround them. Once you learn how to do something, like ride a bike, the muscle memory is stored here: basal ganglia (or nuclei) System of subcortical structures that are important for the planning and production of movement. Collection of neural somas that are doing the same thing: thalamus. Gateway to the brain; receives almost all incoming sensory information before that information reaches the cortex. Tied with hippocampus- attaches an emotion to a memory: hypothalamus.