PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Anterograde Amnesia, Hindbrain

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Bruce Tsuji

Document Summary

Aspects of our own human hardware (brain) - roughly 1. 5kg of brain. 2 hemispheres of the brain connected by the corpus callosum which hand do you use for different tasks? (drawing, throwing a ball, etc. ) Not a black/white item (right handed vs left handed) Specialization: left hemisphere: language, mathematics, analytical, sequential. Only true for about 95% of right handers and about 62% of left handers: right hemisphere: visual, spatial, holistic, music, theme of language, creativity, intuition. Ability to recognize our own emotions and those of others. Broca"s area: seems to be specialized for speech production, damaged? know what want to say but cannot say it. Wernicke"s area: comprehend speech, damaged? speech sounds normal but meaningless. Hemispheric lateralization: left side of body typically wired to right side of brain, right side of body typically wired to left side of brain, each eye wired to both sides of brain.