PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Oscilloscope, White Matter, Serendipity

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

Pre-frontal) area that controls attention processing; control centre for planning. Can"t use monkey"s as efficiently, b/c we"re not that similar. On anterior part, sematic sensory cortex --> process touch. Lots of work done with animals (we are similar to monkeys on occipital & temporal lobe) Most well known for auditory area, but also involved in visual processing among other things e. g. , damage in this area --> deficit in processing spaces, even though you can see it. Macaque (rhesus monkey): small brain, not as convoluted, but with physical similarities. Egyptians: did autopsy, so they had a sense of what damage on one side of brain does to other side of body. Explained why cortical layer is so convoluted --> it"s to make brain more dense and packed into small cranium. Grey & white matter: the cortex is only the grey matter (outer layer); white layer is the connective tissue (myelinated)