PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Neuropsychology, Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe
20 Aug 2013
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May 14 th 2013 hindbrain injury worst possible. Brain planes: different ways to slice the brain. Midsagittal plane (when you have a fmri and see the inside of the middle of the brain. Sagirral plane (when you have a fmri and see the outside of the middle of the brain) Hindbrain starting at the back is the most basic evolutionary. The cortex: frontal lobe cognition, higher order thinking, attention and executive functions (planning, decisions making) also motor cortex is on the back of this lobe, parietal lobe somatosensory context (pain, pressure, touch and temperature) Homunculus (little man this cortex is in itself a little man. Every body part has a section in the cortex (2 strips motor and sensory) the size dedicated in the brain represented in a model human. Also language and spatial sense: temporal lobe takes a lot of basic things and starts to do more complicated things.
