COGS 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spatial Cognition, Lesion

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 100
• Professor: Farhana Zulkernine

Document Summary

Studies the neural structure and processes underlying human cognitive function and emotion. Two cerebral hemispheres, one on each side. Corpus callosum: nerve fibers that connect the two hemispheres. Damaged frontal lobe: suffer from executive dysfunction, difficulty starting and stopping behaviors and problem solving, inability to stop an action once it started is psychological inertia, engage in behavior due to environmental stimuli: environmental dependency syndrome. Brain recording techniques: single-cell recording: electrode is inserted into or adjacent to a neuron, multiple cell recording: large electrode is used to measure activity of a group of neurons. Primary motor cortex: organizes the senses and stuff. Primary somatosensory cortex: regulates the somatosensory parts of a person. Frontal lobe: attention, behavior, problem solving, abstract thinking. Parietal lobe: hearing, language, attention, somatosensation, spatial recognition. Temporal lobe: speech, language, hearing, visual and auditory memories. Case study method: looks at the effects of brain damage due to brain trauma, strokes, or other injuries to humans.