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-interprets information you see with your eyes (ex. he color is...blue)
-some damage causes you to not interpret visuals correctly OR just results in delays
-brain development starts here and moves forward |
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-interprets sound
-damage results in incorrect interpretation
-saving information into memories
- contains the hippocampus |
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| -decides what memories should be stored |
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-spacial relations
-being able to know how the space around you looks and how objects are related to one another in that space
-where you are in space
-depth/speed perception |
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-registers touch
-it is the ONLY thing that this registers
-each body part has a localized area on the sensory cortex |
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-registers movement
-sends message down spinal cord that instructs that body part to move
-lined up same way as sensory cortex |
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| -does primary thinking (not registering) |
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-30% of brain function happens here
-distinguishes us from animals
-desicion making
-planning
-controlling emotion
-critical/complex thinking
-takes information from rest of brain's findings and decides what to do with this information
-not fully developed until 25 because neurons are not fully connected |
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-just used to relay information to brain
-tunes out outside enviro and distractions to help with focus |
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-discovered in 1861
-responsible for language, communication and speech production
-damage results in difficulty finding words to express emotions/desires/events |
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-discovered in 1874
-comprehension in what is said/what they are saying
-people with damage can string words together but they don't make sense |
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| Stats for location of Wernicke's and Broca's |
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-95% of righties have them on left
-70% lefties have it on right |
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