PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Occipital Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Cerebral Cortex
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Largest structure in terms of # of neurons. 80% of neurons is found in cerebral cortext. Sensory information that comes into left side is processed at first in right hemisphere. Control of your body is opposite movement on left side of body is controlled by right hemisphere. Differentiates us from other species frontal lobe what makes us more sophisticated and advanced vs other species. Occipital lobe processing of sensory information of vision. Sight: what you"re experiencing in terms of visual processing is firing of neurons in occipital lobe: temporal, sides of the head. Language, language production, broca"s area in left frontal lobe. What separates us from other mammals . What skills we have, what we"re able to do. Damage to frontal lobe: dramatic damage to cognitive abilities. Prefrontal lobe especially when we"re really doing cognitively active things, most likely to be firing. Ability to have abstract thought not necessarily tangible or real.
