PSY 1071 Chapter Notes -Laterality, Language Production, Acetylcholine
3 Mar 2014
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Anatomy: cerebral cortex, wrinkled part on outside of brain, this changes the most between species, frontal lobe, movement/speech (left, temporal lobe, hearing, face recognition, object recognition, comprehension (left, primary motor area, primary somatosensory area. If our bodies were proportional with our somatosensory cortex, we would look very strange : parietal lobe, touch/sensation, spatial processing, occipital lobe, primary visual area ix. Involved in rapid movement, timing, coordination, and balance: basal ganglia, slow, deliberate movement, e. g. walking, posture (note: parkinson"s. Disease involves the degeneration of basal ganglia: both the cerebellum and bg are involved in cognition. So if degeneration of the basal ganglia occurs in parkinson"s disease, what neurotransmitter would you expect to be an important neurotransmitter of use in this region: serotonin, acetylcholine, dopamine, adrenaline, hippocampus a. Brain is divisible, both anatomically and functionally into discrete components. These components are often specialized for specific functions and work together to control behavior.
