PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fusiform Gyrus, Sensory Cortex, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

Hippocampus helps support long term memories (factional and episodic function) Anterograde amnesia- inabitity to form new factual memories. The cure to epilepsy is to cut the corpus coliseum. Feedback loop between neurone happening. (think phones near each other, thats a feedback loop) Stimulate the sensory cortex and patients will report feelings on there skin in speci c areas. Simulate the motor cortex and patients will either say that a body part is moving or it will physically move. The more you use a body part, the bigger that part of the brain is. A lot of exibility towards the amount of brian tissue detected to certain body parts. Pro painists have more blood ow to all areas of these areas of the brian during playing piano. Paitents with acute damage to the fusiform gyrus are unable to recognize upright faces. They don"t know that a face of a face. Don"t see this for any other kind of brian damage.