Psychology 3226A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Frontal Lobe, Hypermetamorphosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3226A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Hoshooley

Document Summary

Baby born with extremely low weight and had postpartum complications but at 1 year old he seemed fine. Began to wander away in school years. Right frontal lobe and 50% of left hemisphere was not there. So no frontal lobes lead to no social skills and very little emotion except anger. It is the inferred behavioral state of an affect, which is defined as a conscious, subjective feeling about a stimulus. Like hr and bp: distinctive motor behavior, self-reported cognition. Cognition operates in the realm of both subjective emotional feelings and other cognitive processes (plans, memories, or ideas): unconscious behavior. Investigating the anatomy of emotion: it seems as though the thalamus and hypothalamus contain the neural circuits responsible for the expression of emotion and for autonomic responses. The emotional brain: the limbic structures act on the hypothalamus to produce emotional states. Can be caused by meningoencephalitis: it appears in absence or removal of amygdala and inferior temporal cortex.