PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mind-Wandering, Lisa Lopes, Electromagnetic Coil

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Christine Millicent Burton

Document Summary

P. g. case that has a metal rod into his left eye, up through the frontal lobe of his brain and out the top of the skull. Frontal lobe is important in emotional regulation and decision making. Damage to broca"s area, near the front of the temporal lobe on the left frontal lobe, cause broca"s aphasia, a disorder where a person has difficulty producing speech. Wernicke"s area is in the left temporal lobe close to the front of the occipital lobe. Damage to wernicke"s area cause a deficit in language comprehension and meaningful language production. The patient can speak, but speech is meaningless. Damage in the inferior temporal cortex causes object agnosia, the inability to correctly recognize objects. But only occurred in visual recognition of the objects, not by any other sensation (touch, describe) H. m. case that has damage to hippocampus causes loss of the ability to form new memories.