CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Parietal Lobe, Postcentral Gyrus, Auditory Cortex

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ben Wormwood

Document Summary

Relays and filters information from the senses and transmit the information to the cerebral cortex. Receives and processes direct inputs from all the major senses except smell. Hippocampus: critical for creating new memories and integrating them into a network of knowledge so that they can be stored indefinitely in other parts of the cerebral cortex. Amygdala: plays a central role in many emotional processes, particularly in the formation of emotional memories. Basal ganglia: a group of subcortical structures that direct intentional movements, also involved in suppressing involuntary movement, concentration of dopamine, structures, striatum, globus pallidus, subthalamic nucleus, substantia nigra (dense concentration of dopamine-inducing neurons, implicated in parkinson"s disease. Structures: frontal lobe, located at the front of the brain. Has specialized areas for voluntary movement, abstract thinking, planning, memory and judgment: home to primary motor cortex, parietal lobe, located in front of the occipital lobe. Damage to left parietal lobe can lead to gestmann"s syndrome.