PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Interthalamic Adhesion, Entorhinal Cortex

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Jean- Marc Fellous

Document Summary

Coordination between r and l side of body hands and feet. Allow for some specialized function to be restricted to only one side (language is left. Lateralization (right part of brain controls left v left controls right), all senses crossing. Convergence (from simple sensory features to more complex ones) Except for smell (olfactory sense, left goes to left nostril) picture of body image in your brain, disproportional human figure neighboring body parts talk to each other. Different parts of the body are represented by different groups of neurons. The number of neurons in charge of a body part is not proportional to size of that part sensory homunculus if neurons are close together in the brain then they tend to talk to each other. Body is something that is also constructed in your mind, why it"s called body image. Neurons for feet are close to neurons for the genitalia. Eyes (retina) to optic chiasm to lateral geniculate nucleus.