NSCI442- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Posterior-sensory input enters the ofc; gustatory, auditory, etc. Medial-value representation of objects take place (objects and people) Lateral/anterior-behavior programming, based on memories, past experiences. Further: able to establish how we are going to react to a situation or task at hand. Establishes how we are going to behave. Interactions with objects, people, responses to events happening. Phineas gage and the change in his personality. Damage in front parts of the brain-unable to read social cues in society. Unable to perform in relation to what is expected. Also the ofc is involved in: controlling and correcting reward & punishment-related behavior, emotion & emotion regulation, modulates social behavior, impulsivity, openness to experience. Differences in: arousal, inhibited, control responses: above-average affect decreased ofc when thinking you"re better than other people. Ct scans with people with shrapnel in their heads (no mris work because metal will pull out of their head)
