PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amygdala, Temporal Lobe, Benjamin Lee Whorf

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: markherbert

Document Summary

Are not interrelated as much as thinking is internalized language. Mental imagery: internal visual representations of stored visual memories: thoughts that involve making up internal visual representations of stored sensory input, most do not include language. Spatial navigation: usually occurs in the form of visual imagery: may remember the appearance of a certain street corner and automatically turn right when you are triggered to do so by your visual system. Some people use this sense of direction to navigate: not language driven. Spatial memory: we appear to search our actual relevant memories to solve tasks requiring mental imagery. When we have thoughts that involve language they activate the frontal love and the temporal lobe, the same areas used when we comprehend/produce language. It seems obvious that language is derived from thoughts in the first place. We have thoughts and then we make words to communicate those thoughts.