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Frontal lobe
-precentral gyrus
-primary motor cortex |
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Frontal lobe
-anterior to precentral gyrus
-pre-motor cortex/supplementary motor cortex |
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Frontal lobe
-posterior superior frontal gyrus
-frontal eye field (FEF) - controls eye movements especially those such as reading and pursuit |
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Frontal lobe
-part of DLPFC
-highest cortical area for organization, behavior, motor planning
-working memory |
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Frontal lobe
-frontopolar area, DLPFC
-active in many tasks, exact function not known
-coordinates lots of info |
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Frontal lobe
-orbitofrontal cortex
-represents motivational or emotional value of incoming info to guide decision making |
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Frontal lobe
-Broca's area
-speech
-damage will result in not being able to speak but will be able to understand language
44-phonological and syntactic processing
-music processing
45-semantics-word meaning |
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Frontal lobe
-middle frontal area
-part of DLPFC
-sustaining attention
-response inhibition
-working memory |
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Frontal lobe
-part of VLPFC
-plays role in encoding long term memory
-working memory |
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Parietal lobe
-primary somatosensory cortex
-post central gyrus
Damage: loss of vibration detection, loss of fine touch
-may lose ability to recognize object by touch
-may lose proprioception - where body is in space |
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Parietal lobe
-somatosensory association area
-posterior to 3,1,2
-somatosensory processing and association |
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Parietal lobe
-somatosensory association cortex
-active in visuo-motor coordination
-spatial attention
posterior to area 5
Damage: optic ataxia - difficulty in reaching and grabbing objects |
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Parietal lobe
-angular gyrus - intersection of temporal, parietal, occipital lobes
-language processing
Damage: anomic aphasia - have trouble naming shit
alexia - impaired reading ability |
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Parietal lobe
-inferior parietal cortex
-many somatosensory functions - texture, tactile learning
Damage: conduction aphasia - damage to arcuate fasiculus tract that connects broca's to wernicke's. person can still speak fluently but makes word substitutions that don't make sense |
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Occipital lobe
-primary visual cortex
-"striate" cortex (V1) |
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Occipital lobe
-secondary visual cortex
-"extrastriate" - (V2-V5) |
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"Where" - recognize location of object
V1->V2->V3->V5 |
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"What" pathway - object recognition
V1->V2->V3->V4 |
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Temporal lobe
-high level visual processing
-inferior temporal gyrus
-target of ventral pathway |
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Temporal lobe
-auditory processing and language
-middle temporal area |
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Temporal lobe
-Wernicke's area
-superior temporal gyrus
Damage: Wernicke's aphasia |
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| can speak but sentences are nonsense. difficulty understanding written and spoken language |
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Temporal lobe
-variety of functions
-role in processing faces
-fusiform gyrus
Damage: prosopagnosia |
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Temporal lobe
-memory- semantic and autobiographical info
-one of first areas to be affected by alzheimer's
-temperopolar area |
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Temporal lobe
-primary auditory cortex
-auditory association cortex
-neurons are arranged according to the sound frequency they respond best to
Damage: loss of sound awareness |
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| tissue that surrounds the corpus callosum |
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part of medial temporal lobe
-associated with learning and memory |
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part of medial temporal lobe
-responsible for emotion |
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-cingulate gyrus
-hippocampus
-amygdala
-hypothalamus
-part of thalamus
-orbitofrontal cortex
-some basal ganglia |
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Limbic System
exact functions of parts isnt known
-ventral posterior cingulate
-pregenual area |
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Limbic System
-involved in emotional processing
-anterior cingulate gyrus
Damage: Abulia-lack of will or initiative |
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Limbic System
-may be involved in depression
-overactivity may cause treatment resistant depression |
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Limbic System
-recall episodic information
Damage: anterograde amnesia - can't form new memories |
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Limbic System
-involved in visual processing but exact role is unknown
-retrolimbic area |
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Limbic System
-sensory integration functions similar to area 7 |
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Limbic System
-heavily connected with prefrontal and pareital cortex
-conflict monitoring and error detection
-Stroop task (color words written in colors other than the word) |
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Limbic System
-together make the entorhinal cortex
-important memory center
-parahippocampal gyrus |
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Limbic System
-perirhinal cortex
-involved in visual perception and memory |
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Extra Areas
-subcentral area
-taste |
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Exrta Areas
-function not well understood
-near insula and temporal lobe - nearly impossible to see |
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