Matthew 5:5 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. General Psychology.

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Matthew 5:5 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. General Psychology

The Cerebral Cortex The lobes consist of: outer grey “bark” structure that is wrinkled in order to create more surface area for 20+ billion neurons. inner white stuff—axons linking parts of the brain. 180+ billion glial cells, which feed and protect neurons and assist neural transmission. 300 billion synaptic connections Click to reveal bullets. The orange area is the cerebellum. The brain has left and right hemispheres

The Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex: Preview involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments Frontal Lobes Parietal Lobes Occipital Lobes Temporal Lobes include the sensory cortex include the visual areas; they receive visual information from the opposite visual field Click to reveal bullets. include the auditory processing areas

Functions of the Brain: The Motor and Sensory Strips Input: Sensory cortex (Left hemisphere section receives input from the body’s right side) Output: Motor cortex (Left hemisphere section controls the body’s right side) No animation. The body parts along each strip represent the amount of neural space devoted to movement or sensation of that body part. Parts needing more precise sensation or control take up more cortical space. These “strips” are located at the border of the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe.  Axons receiving motor signals FROM the cortex Axons sending sensory information TO the cortex

Using our knowledge of functions: Brain-computer interfaces and neural prosthetics Here, a robotic arm is operated through controls embedded in the motor strip of the cortex. We may soon be able to use computers to translate neural inputs into more commands and words than simply grabbing food. Click to reveal bullets.

Why do the fingers have greater representation than the upper arm Why do the fingers have greater representation than the upper arm? (Precise Control) Preview Question 8: What are the functions of the cerebral cortex?

Demonstration Try moving your right hand in a circular motion, as if polishing a table. Now start your right foot doing the same motion synchronized with the hand. Now reverse the foot motion (but not the hand). Tough, huh? But easier if you try moving the left foot opposite to the right hand. The left and right limbs are controlled by opposite sides of the brain. So their opposed activities interfere less with each other.

Sensory Functions of the Cortex The sensory strip deals with information from touch stimuli. The occipital lobe deals with visual information. Auditory information is sent to the temporal lobe. Click to reveal bullets. Auditory areas are also active when someone in a psychotic state is experiencing “voices”/auditory hallucinations

The Visual Cortex This fMRI scan shows increased activity in the visual cortex when a person looks at a photograph. No animation.

Association function of the cortex More complex brains have more cortical space devoted to integrating/associating information No animation. The relative proportion of the cortex devoted to taking in sensory information and sending out motor commands is smaller as the association areas are larger (a negative correlation).

Association Areas: Frontal Lobes The frontal lobes are active in “executive functions” such as judgment, planning, and inhibition of impulses. The frontal lobes are also active in the use of working memory and the processing of new memories. Click to reveal bullets. There is a large set of association areas in front of the motor strip and behind the forehead.

Phineas Gage (1823-1860) Case study: In a work accident, a metal rod shot up through Phineas Gage’s skull, destroying his eye and part of his frontal lobes. After healing, he was able to function in many ways, but his personality changed; he was rude, odd, irritable, and unpredictable. Possible explanation: Damage to the frontal lobes could result in loss of the ability to suppress impulses and to modulate emotions. The possible explanation appears with a click. See if students can guess at an explanation for Gage’s symptoms based on the area of brain damage.

Parietal Lobe Association Areas This part of the brain has many functions in the association areas behind the sensory strip: managing input from multiple senses performing spatial and mathematical reasoning monitoring the sensation of movement Click to reveal bullets.

Temporal Lobe Association Areas Click to reveal bullets. Some abilities managed by association areas in this “by the temples” lobe: recognizing specific faces managing sensory input related to sound, which helps the understanding of spoken words

Specialization and Integration Five steps in reading a word aloud: No animation. This slide should be considered optional here, or presented as such to the students, because this chapter no longer includes this image or this level of detail. If any of these processes are not working properly (e.g because of damage to one of these brain areas in the left hemisphere), aphasia can result. Aphasia refers to the impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca’s area (speech impairment) or to Wernicke’s area (impairing understanding or causing the inability to produce meaningful words).

Plasticity: The Brain is Flexible This 6-year-old had a hemispherectomy to end life-threatening seizures; her remaining hemisphere compensated for the damage. If the brain is damaged, especially in the general association areas of the cortex: the brain does not repair damaged neurons, BUT it can restore some functions it can form new connections, reassign existing networks, and insert new neurons, some grown from stem cells Click to reveal bullets and example. Despite lists of lateralized functions, there are many areas of overlap and duplication in the hemispheres. This is part of the reason that the girl with only one hemisphere was able to adapt.

Our Two Hemispheres Lateralization (“going to one side”) The two hemispheres serve some different functions. How do we know about these differences? Brain damage studies revealed many functions of the left hemisphere. Brain scans and split brain studies show more about the functions of the two hemispheres, and how they coordinate with each other. Click to reveal bullets. Brain scan studies show normal individuals engage their right brain when completing a perceptual task and their left brain when carrying out a linguistic task. However, many functions of the two hemispheres overlap.

The intact but lateralized brain Right-Left Hemisphere Differences Right Hemisphere Feelings and intuition Big picture such as “forest” Language: tone, inflection, context Inferences and associations Perception Wholes, including the self Thoughts and logic Details such as “trees” Language: words and definitions Linear and literal Calculation Pieces and details No animation. I’ve included this here rather than later because it helps with understanding the split brain studies. Note (from the “Handedness” close-up box in the text): about 3 percent of people, mostly lefties, do not follow this pattern as clearly, e.g. they process language in the right, or both, hemispheres.

Split- Brain Studies To end severe whole-brain seizures, some people have had surgery to cut the corpus callosum, a band of axons connecting the hemispheres. Click to reveal two sentences. Researchers have studied the impact of this surgery on patients’ functioning.

Separating the Hemispheres: Factors to Keep in Mind Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body AND is aware of the visual field on that opposite side. Without the corpus callosum, the halves of the body and the halves of the visual field do not work together. Only the left half of the brain has enough verbal ability to express its thoughts out loud. Click to reveal bullets. Before going on to the next three slides, see if students can speculate on the implications of these three factors. What happens when a person with separated hemispheres tries to read a sign, or reach for something, or describe what he or she sees?

Split visual field Each hemisphere does not perceive what each EYE sees. Instead, it perceives the half of the view in front of you that goes with the half of the body that is controlled by that hemisphere. No animation. Notice that the optic chiasm is not cut when the corpus callosum is cut. Instructor: you may want to switch the text, move the slide’s bullet point to the notes and the note to the slide.

Divided Awareness in the Split Brain Try to explain the following result: No animation. See if the students can piece it together: the left hemisphere is the one that does verbal language, and that hemisphere is processing the right visual field, so what it can verbally report is “Art.”

The divided brain in action Talent: people are able to follow two instructions and draw two different shapes simultaneously Drawback: people can be frustrated that the right and left sides do different things Click to reveal second bullet. People with ‘divided brains’ may be more likely to report frustration with what the LEFT hand is doing; see if students can figure out why that is (the left hemisphere is the one talking to you and doesn’t know what input or purposes the right hemisphere is acting on).

Right-Left Differences in the Intact Brain People with intact brains also show left-right hemispheric differences in mental abilities. A number of brain scan studies show normal individuals engage their right brain when completing a perceptual task and their left brain when carrying out a linguistic task.

Is it All Right to be Left Handed? Being a left hander is difficult in a right-handed world.

Clockwise or Counter Bistable Illusion

Tests Pair up – Poke a hole in a paper and look through the hole. Lean over and whisper to your partner as softly as you can. Process L/R.

Test Need volunteers. Your job is to fool the crowd. Are you left or right-handed? You will do a couple of tasks to see if you can fool the crowd.