OCEANO 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neuropsychology, Temporal Lobe, Gestalt Psychology
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Farthin g (1992): split -brain re search: mind-body problem: mind and consciousness are functions of the brain. 3 major divisions in the brain: central core basic body functions. Oldest pat of the brain in evolutionary terms. Includes: brain stem, cerebellum, thalamus, and hypothalamus: limbic system. Wraps around the central core and lies between it and the cerebrum. Main structures: hippocampus (memory storage and retrieval processes); amygdala (memory and emotional behaviour: cerebrum: two cerebral hemispheres connected to each other by the corpus callosum. Its surface, cerebral cortex, is responsible for higher mental functions. Temporal lobes memory storage: episodic and semantic, working in conjunction with limbic structures: bilateral damage = amnesia. Parietal lobes recognition of objects and for integration of info from different sensory modalities. Left naming objects and for stm for verbal info: right spatial perception functions and for stm for nonverbal info. Contralateral organization = most important thing to note in split-brain research:
