PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Frontal Lobe

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Hippocampus: memory formation, case of h. m. Hypothala(cid:373)us: the four f"s (cid:894)fighti(cid:374)g, fleei(cid:374)g, feedi(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)d mati(cid:374)g(cid:895) Cerebral cortex: more developed in humans than animals; higher cognitive and emotional functions: frontal lobe- judgments and impulse, personality, parietal lobe- sense of touch, occipital lobe- sight, temporal lobe- hearing. Prosopagnosia: can recognize objects but not differentiate faces: still make inferences based on voice and clothes. Sensory and motor function for opposite sides of the brain. Right: perceptual and spatial; understand simple language but not produce it.