PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positron Emission Tomography, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
29 Aug 2016
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You could feel the bumps on someone"s head and determine their personality. All this patients could say was tan . After he died, broca did an autopsy. On slide 2, the red highlighted part is what broca discovered as the part of the brain that holds our language and words. Spinal cord: reflexes, sensory and motor signals. Cerebellum: motor function, learning, and motor memory. Limbic (border) system: hypothalamus: body functions and motivated behaviors. 3: thalamus: relays sensory information (but not smell) The ability to sleep peacefully and block out specific things in your sleep: basel ganglia: plans movement and responds to reward, the hippocampus stores new memories. Studies are showing the hippocampi physically grow with use: the amygdala: negative and positive associations. Four lobes: occipital: visual information, parietal: sense of touch, temporal: auditory information and face processing, frontal: physical movement and prefrontal cortex. Complex thoughts that are not just physical. Concerned with social phenomena, such as following norms.
