PSYC 1100 Lecture 4: PSYCH 1100 Lecture 4 Notes

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Frontal: decision making, judgement, plannings, abstract thought, voluntary movement(motor cortex). One of the last areas to fully mature. Parietal: processing touch, sensory integration(somatosensory cortex), higher order cognitive abilities. Temporal: hearing, processing language and other auditory stimuli. Spatial memory: london taxicab drivers study as an example of neuroplasticity. Fear conditioning experiment: rat doesn"t explore space like it usually would because they think the oor will shock them; tone elicits fear even in a different space. People with amygdala lesions are impaired in recognizing emotions and do not show memory of emotional events. Amygdala volume is associated with the size and complexity of your social network. Individuals with psychopathy show signi cant volume reductions in amygdala compared to controls. Measures changes in blood ow to show areas that demand more energy to work. Lit up area identi es working brain areas during certain tasks. Pet scan: ingest substance and scan traces substance fmri: detects changes in oxygen levels in brain blood.