PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Parietal Lobe, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Temporal Lobe
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Whenever we are talking about the frontal lobe we are talking about the pre-frontal lobe specifically in gall"s phrenology, it was believed that intelligence as in the anterior part of the brain. Jacobson talked about one monkey that did not react well to being tested , throwing temper tantrums before even getting tested , after frontal lobotomy the monkey became calm and easily tested. Other surgeons like freeman and watts brought this technique to north america, operated on nearly 3500 patients, 18% patients developed epilepsy because of scarred tissue. People with frontal lobe problems do fine on i. q tests meaning that intelligence has nothing to do with the frontal lobe, however they had problem i changing inappropriate behavior. Frontal lobe patients also have a disassociation between motor and verbal behavior, they can verbally correctly describe a problem and the process but they cannot actually motorally do the problem.
