PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prefrontal Cortex, Reticular Formation, Hindbrain

• School: UCSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: B E N S T O R M, M A U R E E N C A L L A N A N, K I M C A R D I L L A

Document Summary

Consciousness: attention, sleeping/dreaming, consciousness, sate of awareness of your internal sensations, knowledge of your thoughts and internal dialogue, cognizance of yourself as separate from others, understanding of your external environment. Functions: restrict: which stimuli you notice and focus on, select: information to be stored in memory. Retrieve what i heard this morning: plan: based on past experiences and future expectations. Neurology of consciousness: consciousness is distributed throughout the brain. Hindbrain and midbrain are important for arousal and for sleep. Damage to the reticular formation can lead to coma. Prefrontal cortex is key for conscious control of information processing. Functions of sleep: conservation of energy when there was no need to forage for food or to work. Conserving energy: consolidation of new memories. Solidify experiences that we"ve had throughout the day are going to help us remember the next day. Eeg stages of sleep: rem: resembles beta waves of alert wakefulness.