Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cerebral Cortex, Temporal Lobe, Paul Broca

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

M1 damage impairs voluntary behaviour; however, with practice the activity can be reacquired. First fmri study to look at cortical reorganization (plasticity) Cerebral asymmetries: two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex are linked by the corpus callosum (basically making two brains into one) work together seamlessly. Left and right cerebral hemispheres have specialized functions (hemisphere specialization or cerebral asymmetries refers to the functional difference between the two hemispheres) Dominant for spee(cid:272)h produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d la(cid:374)guage per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) (cid:894)he"s talki(cid:374)g (cid:449)e are liste(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. Both in the left) 95% of people have this (if you are right handed this is a 99% chance and if left handed you are 90% likely) Dominant for praxis your ability to string together movements (i. e. grabbing the coffee cub and putting to your mouth to drink: right: Specialized for haptics (identifying optics via haptic inputs) refers to our sense of touch (can identify something without looking by touching) Visual spatial control (people with parietal lesions show neglect)