PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Primary Motor Cortex, Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe

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

Document Summary

Involved in: initiating movements & speech & activity, strong memories, exercising impulse control (social & sexual behaviour), initiating activity & judgement sense of smell. Performs tasks that have to do with logic, such as in science and mathematics responsible for controlling the right side of the body. Concerned with: receiving sensory info, perception/cognition (awareness of right & left sides of body and position of body in space) Key role in: understands what is said. Nerve bres carrying visual info pass through these lobes. Coordinates the left side of the body. Performs tasks that have do with creativity and the arts. Concerned with: storage of memories, experiencing strong emotions, smell & taste. Destination of the auditory pathway that transmits impulses from inner ear to brain. Key role in: orientation and appreciation of time. Concerned with: rec. sensory info, perception (cognition) Key role in: understanding what is said. Concerned with: receiving sensory info & perception & pos. of body.