PSYO 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Primary Sensory Areas, Brenda Milner, Henry Molaison

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1011
• Professor: Leanne Stevens,Shelley Adamo,Kevin Duffy,Jennifer Stamp

Document Summary

Had hippocampi removed to cure epilepsy in 1953. @ the time the hippocampi had no known function. He was no longer able to move short term memory into long term memory storage. He was able to learn new motor skills. Brenda milner was the psychologist who figured out that hm lost his declarative memory (names, facts, dates) Primary motor area; brain stem and spinal cord. Information from left visual field goes to the right half of the brain and vice versa. Output: motor cortex (left hemisphere section controls the body"s right side) Input: somatosensory cortex (left hemisphere section receives input from the body"s right side) Amount of space in cortex depends on how much receptors are in the part of the body. For example, your hands take up a lot of space in the part of the body. For example, your hands take up a lot of space in the cortex since they have fine motor skills.