PSY 20000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Limbic Lobe, Color Mapping, Brainstem
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The forebrain includes all the lobe such as occipital, parietal, temporal and frontal. The hind brain contains the brain stem, the limbic lobe (sexual, memory), hypothalamus (appetite, temperature, hormones), thalamus (sensory gateway except smell), and cerebellum (muscle control, learning) Contralateral processing refers to the left brain controlling the right side of the body and vice versa. In the terms of visual perception, everything from the right field of view is interpreted by the left side of the brain and vice versa. When the corpus callosum is cut, info is not shared between the two hemispheres. There is no difference in observable behavior, but a spilt brain experiment showed that the left brain is involved in speech and language while the right brain is involved in mental image and creativity. Left handed people and right handed people were expected to have different data because left handed people are equally distributed in brain hemisphere function while right handed people have more differences.
