PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Visual Cortex, Frontal Lobe, Central Processing Unit

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

The brain: imaging techniques, cat or ct, cat/ ct scan one of the earliest brain scans was an x-ray machine. Injected with small, safe amount of radioactivity: different states (early research in brain function, resting state. 3: music right side lights up more. Lesions, stimulation, and recording*** electrodes inserted into the brain to record animal thought patterns, etc Single-cell recording see what parts of brain res for speci c stimulation. Eeg electron encephalogram: reads waves along scalp without surgical intervention, overview of brain (see diagram***, cerebral cortex (new brain), cerebrum, neocortex. Left and right hemispheres: connected by big bundle of ber, corpus callosum bundle of ber that connects l and r hemispheres, contralateral connection, brain is contralaterally wired, vision is contralateral. Shared with reptiles (reptilian; not conscious; reacts with what it wants to do; Re exes: mammals evolved new brain, now referred to cerebral cortex. 3. controls movement, coordination, breathing and other necessary functions: the cerebral cortex.