01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Basal Ganglia, Hypothalamus, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: ESTELLE MAYHEW

Document Summary

Polygraphs : lie detector that measures blood pressure, heart rate and respiration. Eeg : a device that measures electrical activity in the brain. Pet : (positron emission tomography) measure the energy usage in the brain. Mri : uses strong magnetic forces and radio waves to find brain tumors fmri : (functional magnetic resonance imaging) measures brain activity by detecting the blood flow to the brain. Peripheral nervous system : somatic and autonomic nervous system (sympathetic. Corpus callosum : this connects the left and right hemisphere together. Temporal lobe : important for vision, language, hearing and autobiographical memories. Parietal lobe : important for perception of space, numbers, actions of others and shape and orientation of objects. Somatosensory cortex : important for pain, pressure and temperature. Frontal lobe : important for memory, problem solving, judgement, expression and sexual behaviors. Motor cortex : it sends signals to muscles. Hypothalamus : helps regulate emotional and motivated behavior.