PSYC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anatomical Terms Of Location, Olfactory Bulb, Detection Theory

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2010
• Professor: Seth A Gitter

Document Summary

Left and right hemispheres: specialize in different things. Control and receive input from the opposite side of the body. For vision, sense of touch, reactions the left side is. Connected to the right side and vice versa. Right visual field signals go to the left side of the brain and vice versa. Control and receive input from the same side of the body. For smell; left nasal cavity signals go to left hemisphere. Signals flow to both sides of the brain determined by type/intensity of. For taste and hearing; sound going into the right ear can be heard by the left ear but is more intense on the right side. Corpus callosum: connects the two hemispheres. How the hemispheres communicate to one another. Shows where radiated glucose (brains energy source) is being used. Shows structures (tissues) of the brain in a 3d picture.