PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phineas Gage, Midbrain, Nancy Kanwisher

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Ellen McLellan

Document Summary

Lecture 2 cognitive psychology and the brain. Weighs 3-4 pounds, contains at least 1 trillion neurons, connected to 10,000 other neurons, very complex. 3 major structures: hindbrain: oldest revolutionary structure, part of is cerebellum, midbrain, forebrain: cortex that covers entire brain, most interested in, where higher order cognitive functioning takes place. Most of cognitive level processing occurs in frontal lobe: fully developed at 21 years old. Frontal lobe responsible for decision making, planning, and inhibiting lower level structures: frontal lobe sends inhibitory signals to amygdala to control how to behave in certain situations. Bro(cid:272)a"s area: i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t for speech production, ability to form coherent sentences, cognitive aspects (forming/amalgamation of words: da(cid:373)age to this area of (cid:271)rai(cid:374) = (cid:271)ro(cid:272)a"s aphasia, (cid:862)yes sure. Me go, uh, (cid:374)o(cid:374)- spee(cid:272)h, t(cid:449)o ti(cid:373)es, read, ripe, get (cid:271)etter(cid:863: very aware that words they are producing are not words they are trying to get out, does not interfere with language comprehension.