PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Parietal Lobe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Part 1: searching for brain locations of mental processes. Prefrontal cortex: may be the one of consciousness. Animal brains are important for studying our brains be more complex. Fissures sulci these divide the main lobes of the brain: eye movements in monkeys implants microelectrodes to find out where eye. Broca speech production aphasia (cid:498)broca"s area(cid:499) Localization of cognitive function microstimulation when someone goes under surgery. Grey: cell bodies of neurons + other cells. White: fatty material that gets wrapped around the axons. Multiple sclerosis degeneration of white matter. Gall: a not so magnificent proposal (1800s: phrenology: the idea that the shape of someone"s skull determines intelligence + mental capabilities. I. e. , parts of the brain will be larger in more developed areas: bumps in the brain, brains are not dense enough to deform a skull. Backlash: pessimism about cognitive localization: 1957: primitive brain map, thought the whole brain could be mapped out using ssr.