PSY BEH 192T Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inferior Parietal Lobule, Intraparietal Sulcus, Calcarine Sulcus
18 Oct 2016
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Cerebral cortex is the brain outer bark layer. Corpus callosum- hard body- the middle bridge- white matter that connects the two hemispheres. Different distributions depending on where you are in the brain. Accounts for all neurons we have in the nervous system. Identified 52 different regions based on cytoarchitectoni differences (layer structure) using tissue strains. Structural classification the areas also differ in terms of function. Still widely used to refer to specific brain functions. The folding into gyri and sulci is a mechanism for increasing the total cortical area. The lobe in the back of the brain. Complex aspects of spatial orientation, perception and association cortex. Primary auditory cortex , auditory association area secondary auditory cortex. Dominate hemisphere: wernicke"s area (language comprehension; posterior part), general language. Generally: memory, visual item recognition, language, and auditory processing. Interconnected with hippocampus amygdala make up the limbic system; forms border functions btw phylogentically older and newer brain structures.
