PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leyden Jar, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe
16 Mar 2016
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Blood flow indicates brain locations of mental processes. Visual cortex, occipital lobe the sight of visual processing. Primary processing, like analyses of lines etc. Frontal lobe brains executive (prefrontal cortex) a control area. Parietal lobe somatosensory cortex where touch processing is carried out. Most of the thing is not related to any sensory domain. Most attention processing is carried out in this lobe. Temporal lobe some visual processing are carried out, but more so the sight of auditory processing. Rhesus monkeys have structural similarity to human brain. (helps with research) Idea explained why the cortex has all these bumps and fishers, gyred. Explained that in order to fi all cortical tissue it has to be folded up like that. One of the first to describe the differences between grey matter and white matter. Talk about the whiter matter as connective tissue. You can potentially map out these brain areas from just touching the persons head.
