PSYCO275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Frontal Lobe, Phineas Gage, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO275
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

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Psyco 275 - lecture #20 - cognition: spatial, social and consciousness. If the network is complex enough, it can provide abilities such as social interactions, planning for a goal and general reactions. Association cortices: multimodal cortex: processes more than one sense at a time. Combines visual and auditory senses, and sometimes the sense of the body. Contains neuron that fire if it is a visual or auditory or. One step to a higher level function: bring it to the frontal lobes. Frontal lobes (and not necessarily motor) is important for planning and goal oriented decisions. Cognitive control: processes that allow information processing and behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment depending on current goals, rather than remaining rigid and inflexible, observed by 5 prefrontal areas in our brain. The names of these areas indicate their relative position in our brain. Any object that is put in front of someone afflicted with this condition, they will immediately interact with it.