PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corpus Callosum, Auditory Cortex, Visual Cortex
6 Feb 2017
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Cerebral cortex: outer layer of the cerebrum. Support and nourish and protect the nerve cells: highest level of the brain"s development, responsible for most complex functions, two hemispheres. Controls voluntary muscle movements on the opposite side of the body. Helps register and process body"s skin sensitive. If one hemisphere is damaged early in life, other will assume many functions by reorganizing or building new pathways. Brain sometimes mends itself by forming new neurons through neurogenesis: constraint-induced therapy. Aims to rewire brains and improve dexterity of brain-damaged people. Dual processing: cognitive neuroscientists studying brain activity underlying consciousness have discovered a. Deliberately thinking about what you are going to do next or how you are feeling, etc. Conscious information processing enables us to exert voluntary control and communicate our. Just doing things without consciously thinking about it mental states to others. Much of our everyday thinking, feeling, an acting occurs outside of our conscious awareness.
