PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Visual Cortex, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
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The cerebral cortex is the place where high level perception of the world occurs, and is also the place where controlled motor activities originate. In this sense, it is the place where all our controlled interactions with the external world occur. This contrasts with a number of more basic brain regions which are more devoted to monitoring and controlling internal behaviours and automatic responses to external stimuli. Primary direct sensory (or motor) connections: e. g. The cat in the hat written in really barely legible writing we would still know what it says. In many cases (e. g. control of our body), the lefts side of the brain relates to the right side of the body, or space. The right side of the brain relates to the left side of the body or space. The occipital (and lower part of the temporal) lobes are devoted to vision.
