PSY 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tegmentum, Metencephalon, Myelencephalon
28 Feb 2017
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Telencephalon: cerebral cortex o right and left hemisphere connected through the corpus callosum and separated by the lateral fisher o cortex is divided into four lobes with specific functions: frontal: abstract reasoning, emotion, personality, decision making, executive function, motor movement (precentral gyrus) higher order thinking and decision making, processing emotions, parietal: processes sensory info, numerical information, and integrates spatial information information processing processing sensory information and it integrates info coming from the occipital lobe which is specialized for vision, occipital: vision (concept of cortical blindness if there"s a lesion to the occipital lobe you won"t be able to see your visual world even though your eyes will be healthy) individuals with cortical blindness can"t see images of their dreams as well, individuals blind due to eye issues can see images while dreaming, temporal: auditory information, memory and learning, language, facial recognition, emotion and motivation.
