PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Passport Records, Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

The brain: imaging techniques, cat or ct, cat/ ct scan one of the earliest brain scans was an x-ray machine. 1: different states (early research in brain function, resting state. 3: music right side lights up more. Language left side lights up more: mri and fmri, above research now done on mri, a lot of psychologists are devoting their lives to doing mris to research human brain function and activity. Lesions, stimulation, and recording*** electrodes inserted into the brain to record animal thought patterns, etc Eeg: overview of brain (see diagram***, cerebral cortex (new brain), cerebrum, neocortex. Left and right hemispheres: connected by big bundle of ber, corpus callosum, contralateral connection, brain is contralaterally wired, vision is contralateral. Everything in left visual eld, goes to right slide of my eye, and vice versa for right visual eld: cerebellum (old brain) Shared with reptiles (reptilian; not conscious; reacts with what it wants to do;