PSYB57H3 Midterm: chapter notes and highlights for memory and cog midterm
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Enters new info in memory . it governs processes that allow memory to be stored elsewhere in the brain y amygdala next to the hippocampus because it is central to production of behaviors that express emotions esp fear. It signals other areas of brain when reward occurs. y brainstem at the base of brain and containts structures that receive info to and from spinal cord. Associated with sleep regulation: their neurons produce neuromodulators y pons connects brainstem to cerebellum controls performance i. e. sleep and facial expressions y cerebellim physical coordination and involved in attention and estimation of tme. Ciasm . (x) . the fibers from each optic nerve cross to the opposite hemisphere of the y brain sending info from the left side of each eyes visual field to the right hemisphere and vice versa. Assumes that any 3d object can be desctibed according to its parts and the spatial relations among those parts.
