01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neural Development, Gyrus, Thalamus

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:310
• Professor: Professor Mayhew

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Mostly right (inferior) parietal lesions: ignoring the left space of left part of body (know you can see it/visual information is coming in, but you are not noticing the left side of the space) Anosognosia: don"t believe that they are ignoring half of the object, etc. Very common: what are the symptoms in gerstmann syndrome. Touch someone"s finger and they cannot report which finger is being touched. Disorder of (exclusion) movement not due to weakness, inability to move muscles, abnormal muscle tone/posture, intellectual deterioration or tremor. Many types: oral apraxia, speech aparaxia, constructive apraxia. Sequencing: not being able to order the movement in the correct way. The frontal lobe is all the brain tissue anterior (in front of) to the central sulcus and superior (above) the sylvian fissure. Approximately 20-30% of the neocortex is constituted by the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe is a major part of the brain to develop last in terms of evolutionary pressures.