PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cerebellum, Proprioception, Reduced Affect Display
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Association cortex here seems to be involved in complex spatial functions that differ across the hemisphere. The left parietal appears to keep track of the spatial location of our body parts - proprioception: damage often associated with poor motor movements. The right parietal appears to keep track of the spatial location of things in our external world: damage can lead to problems of neglect and spatial integrations of parts. With parietal lobe the primary cortex is "the sensory strip" and in front of it is "the motor strip" The sensory strip - area of the brain that gets activation when something touches your body: part that gets activated depends on the part of your body that gets touched, e. g. Pinching elbow doesn"t hurt a lot because not a lot of sensory strip but with everything else like lip it hurts more because more sensory strip. Whatever body part is more useful for the task for brain activity the more sensory.
