PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Primary Motor Cortex, Wilder Penfield

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

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The neurons of the brain transmit information using electrical and chemical signals. Proponents of the latter theory suggested that the brain was equipotential every bit of the brain does the same sort of thing in the same way without specialization. Ways: to see if people with damage to distinct parts of their brain show particular patterns of abnormality or whether it"s simply that the more damage a brain has sustained, the more abnormal the behaviour is. If different parts of the brain activate for different tasks, we know that brain function is more localized. If the entire brain activates for each different activity, we will know that it is more of an equipotential organ. Aphasia the loss of the ability to speak. Broca"s aphasia a language disorder resulting from brain damage in which the primary difficulty is with producing language (speaking) rather than understanding language. (could not speak but could understand language)