PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe, Temporal Lobe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Semantic judgments: thinking about the meaning of words. Uniquely associated with increased activity in the lower left part of the frontal lobe and the inner part of the left temporal lobe: visual imagery encoding. Activates visual processing regions in the occipital lobe: organizational encoding. Activates the upper surface of the left frontal lobe. Echoic memory (decays in about 5 seconds: short-term storage and working memory. The central executive component of working memory depends on regions within the frontal lobe that are important for controlling and manipulating information on a wide range of cognitive tasks: long-term storage. The hippocampal region of the brain is critical for putting new information into the long- term store. Different aspects of a single memory (sights, sounds, smells, emotions, etc. ) are stored in different places in the cortex. Memory storage depends critically on the spaces between neurons; sending a neurotransmitter across a synapse strengthens the connection between the two neurons.