CGSC170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lateral Sulcus, Inferior Parietal Lobule, Auditory Cortex

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC170
• Professor: Andreasen Robin

Document Summary

Mind as brain study sheet for exam 3. Includes the autonomic nervous system: involuntary system that controls vital functions: breathing, digestion, heart rate, and secretion of hormones. List some of the main functions of the left hemisphere and of the right hemisphere: hemispheric specialization: one side is more dominant in certain type of cognitive processing. Does not mean that only one hemisphere is involved in a certain type of cognitive processing: functions of left hemisphere: dominant in speech, analytic, mathematics, cause and effect. Controls the right side of the body: functions of right hemisphere: dominant for creativity, art, spatial reasoning, and music. State the structure and function of it & identify it: corpus callosum (structure): set of nerve fibers that connects left and right hemispheres, corpus callosum (function): allows communication between left and right brain. Figure: this shows the 4 major lobes of the cortex, plus the cerebellum, and a small part of the brain stem.