BCS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Reduced Affect Display, Temporal Lobe, Neuroticism

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Course: BCS 110
• Professor: Davis

Document Summary

4/12/18: frontal lobes, executive functions is an umbrella term for the management (regulation, control) of basic cognitive processes including attention, working memory, and task flexibility. The importance of the frontal lobes for executive functions, personality and morality has only been recently appreciated. Unlike the busy sensory processes that occur in the other lobes, the frontal lobes were not easily linked to any single, easily defined function and were known as the silent lobes". However, the frontal lobes subserve other functions (e. g. , motor control), and other areas participate in these functions (i. e. , the frontal lobes are necessary but not sufficient). The prefrontal lobes carry out executive functions and express personality and morality: three possible ways to define pre- frontal cortex: non-motor areas granular frontal cortex (layer. 4 is present thalamic input) projection zone of the dorsal- medial nucleus of the thalamus. The dm nucleus is critical for gating of information to and from prefrontal cortex.