PSY 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reticular Formation, Corpus Callosum, Anatomical Terms Of Location
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Corpus callosum (connects left and right hemisphere) Fixation point is located right between the left and right visual fields. Right hemisphere knows about image if shown on left visual field. The right hemisphere knows about the image. The speech centers are on the left. The left hand can point at the image. Person can point to horse with right hand. Can"t say anything because speech centers are on the left. Composed of midbrain, pons, medulla, and ras. Severe damage can cause coma to occur. Second oldest part of brain to develop. ***likely to get a quiz question asking to identify the stages of the brain"s evolutionary development. Know the evolutionary sequence and know the structures of each of the three. Located at the back of the brain. Mri, petscans (records on-going activity), catscans(records static images) (non-invasive) Studied by psychophysics (study the relationship between environment and mental reactions to events)
