PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ischemia, Medical Imaging, Catatonia
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Idea, resulting from a set of impressions, that some mental ability exists as an entity; example include memory, language and emotion. Difficult to localize constructs in the brain. Act or process of knowing or coming to know. In psychology, used to refer to the processes of thought. Neocortex outside the primary sensory and motor cortices that functions to produce cognition. One of the key differences between association cortex and the primary sensory and motor cortices is the pattern connection. The association cortex receives information that is more highly processed than information received by the primary cortices. Detailed knowledge about the external world and the internal world. Cortical areas not referred to as primary are collectively referred to as the association cortex, which functions in thinking. Evidence for brain abnormalities in organic-neurological disorders is straightforward, and the causes are generally known.
