PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Nervous System, Limbic System, Hindbrain
3 Apr 2017
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Hindbrain: links brain and spinal cord. Midbrain: sending messages to the hindbrain. Corpus callosum: connect the two halves of brain. Hypothalamus: controls feelings of hunger, thirst and other behaviors. Amygdala: allows emotional and behavior or aggressiveness. Hippocampus: involves with consolidating information and memory and cognitive maps. Primitive central core: basic life maintaining processes. Medulla, pons, cerebellum, lower brainstem and parts of thalamus or hypothalamus. Old brain: aka the limbic system. Amygdala, hippocampus and part of thalamus and hypothalamus. Higher mental functions: gray matter and white. The cerebrum has two hemispheres which are connected by corpus callosum: left language, right nonverbal. Cerebrum: houses the higher mental processes like language and spatial abilities, it is divided into 4 lobes. Left side of brain: controls right side, spoken and written language, numerical skills. Right side: emotional thinking, musical processing. Which is the largest of the 4 lobes: frontal. Frontal association area: judgement, personality, attention, abstract thought.
