PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prefrontal Cortex, Frontal Lobe, Fetus
20 Feb 2017
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Nature and nurture, again: brain development. Prefrontal cortex: abstract long range thinking, most forward part of forehead in frontal lobe, amount of development and connections, concepts. Concept of pi: thinking about the future, long term goals, over ride the inputs from other parts of the brain, adaptation to function in complex social groups. Social brain hypothesis: without the prefrontal cortex we couldn"t function adequately in a complex social group, if we live in complex social groups: Our brain is highly adapted to being social: large proportion to language. Sensory and motor areas: socially related things fmri shows some brain activity areas with moral reasoning as well as the same region lighting up during a complex math problem. Our genes lay out the blueprint for our brains. First trimester: brain cells are being formed. Maturation: biological growth across the life span. At birth: almost all the brain cells you"re going to have.
