PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ct Scan, Sensory Cortex

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Claire Scavuzzo

Document Summary

Thinking, planning and language, as well as mood personality and self awareness. Executive functioning goal setting, judgement, planning, impulse control, adapt behaviour. Phineus gage both l and r pdf severely damaged. Higher order association areas allow for complex processing supporting interpretation of complex stimuli and produce complex behaviours. Sensory information perceived primary sensory cortex association cortex (integrates simpler functions to perform more complex functions size, shape, colour, location to identify objects). Processing becomes more complex as you move us hierarchy. Used to identify wernicke"s and broca"s area. Neuropsychologists use tests to infer locus of brain damage, take tests yourself. Neurons use electrical activity to send information. Brain structure mri, and ct scan. Brain function fmri, pet, meg, tms. Exposed to magnetic field measure the energy release by hydrogen atoms. Functional imaging how the brain activity is changing in response to thoughts, emotions, disease, medications, etc. Measures consumption of glucose-like molecules injected with radioactive glucose (2-dg)