Psych Mod-4

Sensory Cortex/location
Front of Parietal Lobes
- receives info from skin senses
- from movement of body parts
Plasticity

modify itself after damage

brain ability to change
Cerebral Cortex
- Body's ultimate control
- information processing center
- Cerebral Cortex LOBES
- Occipital
- Frontal
- Parietal
- Temporal
Frontal Lobes/location
behind forehead
- speaking
- muscle movement
- making plans
- judgement
Temporal Lobes/location
above the ears
- auditory areas
- each information from opposite ear
Hemispheric Specialization

Alas reality is more completed

happens before some types of brain surgery
Occipital Lobes/location

back of head

receive information from visual fields
Cerebellum/location
rear of brain stem
- processing sensory input
- coordinating movement
- output
- balance
- enabling nonverbal learning and memory
Parietal Lobes/location
top of the head toward the rear
- receives sensory input for touch
- body position
Corpus Callosum (large band)
- large band of neural fibers connecting two brains hemispheres
- carrying messages between them
Split Brain Patients
- surprisingly normal
- personality and intellect hardly affected
Split Brain
- condition resulting from surgery
- isolates the brains two hemispheres by cutting the fibers

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Psych Mod-4

Description

The Brain

Updated

2016-02-03T19:37:06Z

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