Brain Part 2 Class Notes Flashcards
Primary cortex
Breaks sensory info down into component parts
The way people have right brain control left body and left brain control right body is called…
Contralateral representation
Secondary cortex
Builds info back up: perception
Association areas
Relates things
Primary somata sensory cortex
Represents your body, touch, every part of it is connected to a separate part of your body. Input zone.
Motor cortex
Output zone, info comes from somata sensory cortex.
Corpus callosum
200 million nerons conects left and right side of barin.
Difference between left and right brain
Right- big picture, sees upright faces exclusively
left- details speaking side, makes things up
Nerons still growing
3,000 to 5,000 a day, hippocampus
MAP
Focused attetion: 20 while walking, 10 while sitting,
30 min of arobic expersize
2 supervised settions a week
8 week program
Occipital lobe
Only visual processing
Temporal lobe
Processes auditory info, taste info, leanting and memory
Parietal lobe
Touch, cenastic sences, where you body is in space
Frontal lobe
Most specialized lobe, not getting sensation, getting perceptions, executive