PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Occipital Lobe, Proprioception, Detection Theory
15 Sep 2020
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Went from calm quiet to aggressive irritable person. Localization of function: parietal lobe: spatial attention, mathematical analysis, some aspects of empathy, primary somatosensory cortex: touch and proprioception. Input: sensory cortex (parietal: temporal lobe: hearing, memory, learning, recognizing faces and objects (located by ear) know this!, occipital lobe: vision (back) Corpus callosum- connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres for messages to pass. Brain damage effects: if one hemisphere is damaged early in life, other will assume many functions by reorganizing or building new pathways, plasticity diminishes later in life, brian sometimes mends itself by forming new neurons through neurogenesis. Brain damage studies revealed many functions of the left hemisphere. Brain scans and split brain studies show more about the functions of the two hemispheres and how they coordinate with each other. To end severe whole-brain seizures, some people have had surgery to cut the corpus callosum, a band of axons connecting the hemispheres.
