PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Commissure, Gyrus, Hindbrain

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Document Summary

Left mostly receives input from and controls the right side of the body. Right mostly receives input from and controls the left side of the body. Vision: ipsilateral (on the same side of body) Bundles of axons, largest commissure is the corpus callosum. Two hemispheres unable to make connections to each other. Connects cerebellum to the rest of the brain. If u hear a noise, orient you towards the sound. Receives info from the senses (except for smell) and other subcortial areas. When you sleep, not going to keep you conscious of everything, it weights the signal and turns it off while sleep. Regulates body temp, hunger, thirst, and sexual behavior. Every lever press a small amount of current will stimulate the hypothalamus. Damage: new info will only be remembered for a few seconds. Formation of emotional memories: attaches emotional significance to neutral events. It stimulates the hippocampus: to recognize these events in the future.