Psychology 3224A/B Midterm: Midterm 1 textbook notes
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Chapter 1 the development of neuropsychology: neuropsychology is strongly influenced by two traditional foci of experimental and theoretical investigations into brain function, brain hypothesis, neuron hypothesis function is the neuron. Idea that the brain is the source of behavior. Idea that the unit of brain structure and: the brain, gyri, sulci. Large ones called fissures: cerebral cortex constitutes most of the forebrain. Mediates cognitive functions: brain stem mediates regulatory functions, wernicke"s area, wernicke"s syndrome/temporal-lobe aphasia/fluent aphasia/wernicke"s aphasia a person can say words, wernicke"s model: Sound sensations enter brain through auditory pathway. Here sound is processed into auditory images or ideas of objects stores. Pathway then goes to broca"s area where representation of speech movements are stored. Hierarchical organization and distributed systems in the brain. The split brain: broca demonstrated that language is lateralized to the left hemisphere, the left was considered dominant for language and for all higher cognitive function.