PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe
10 Feb 2017
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Most complex, newest part of the brain. Motor cortex areas of our bodies that are close together, greater brain area dedicated to motor cortex. Have difficulty producing language, uses simple words, rely on key words. Bro(cid:272)a"s aphasia: hard to speak; non-grammatical, difficult to produce words. Wer(cid:374)i(cid:272)ke"s aphasia: able to speak, but garbled and without meaning. People (cid:272)a(cid:374) speak flue(cid:374)tl(cid:455), (cid:271)ut it"s like (cid:862)(cid:449)ord salad(cid:863) (cluster of words together that do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake se(cid:374)se) Cerebral hemispheres brain comprises 2 hemispheres, almost mirror images of each other. Left focused on language, analytical thought, logic: receives info/controls right side of the body. Right non-verbal information, spatial relations, perception, visual recognition, emotion: receives info/controls left side of body. Left has better logical and language abilities. Right has better spatial, artistic, and musical abilities. Individual variability in the precise nature and degree of lateralization. Peripheral nervous system transmits information to and from the central nervous system.
