CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Motor Cortex, Auditory Cortex, Peripheral Nervous System
4 Oct 2018
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Critically involved in emotional experience/response specifically the formation of emotional memories. Subcortical structures that are involved with motivation and intentional movement: striatum - involved in brain"s reward circuit and formation of habits, globus pallidus, subthalamic nucleus, substantia nigra regulation/motivation and intentional movement. Parkinson"s disease: caused by the deregulation of the basal ganglia along with the lack of function of the substantia nigra. Two halves of the brain (division of labor): the right hemisphere, the left hemisphere. Nerve fibers within the cerebral cortex on both sides of the brain permit information to cross hemispheres. When sides of brain are split it causes a disconnect between mind and body: left speech and verbal logic, can only say ring, right spatial awareness, can only pick up key. Hand dominance plays an important role in this. Region of the brain located at the back of the cerebral cortex. Function: primary visual processing area, produces subject visual experience.
