Monday, October 05, 2009

Frontal Lobes


Week 3/Chapter 3: terms and topics for the frontal lobes

Executive functions?
Personality? Humanness?
Intelligence? Methodological issues: comparing lesions; quantitative (IQ, Category Test) versus qualitative changes (abstract and concrete thought).

Frontal lobe has a range of specific functions associated with various divisions and features:
  1. Motor and premotor cortex - voluntary motor control and planning
  2. Broca's area - on motor/premotor cortex; control of speech, if damaged, "motor aphasia"
  3. Prefrontal cortex - a bit more complex; social behavior? intellegence?
  4. Orbital-frontal region (secondary taste & smell cortex, reward/pleasure of tastes and odors)
  5. Olfactory bulb/nerve - "primary olfactory cortex", frontal lobes are on top of it
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1 comment:

  1. Brian Freedman10:18 PM

    Wooo, the brain is awesome!

    The four divisions of ONLY the frontal lobe are pretty interesting. I never knew so much of the brain is used for motor function.

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