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sisqo1111:
Hi all,
my teacher set homework as she was going away, now i got through everything fine except this table. I uploaded this word document with the table in it.
The ones in bold are what the paper already has and i included the 2 in red. Any help would be great as this is due in on monday :(
Thanks so much

Nick:
I don't have much time because I'm heading off to a party but the brain area section is as follows (i'm doing this pretty quickly so sorry for errors):


Cerebral cortex- you could basically explain ANY information processing difficulty or any difficulty relating to any motor or sensory function. E.g. Difficulty initiating movement, impaired ability to think logically, to learn, to think etc.
Corpus callosum- a communicative structure which allows efficient flow of information between the two hemispheres
Frontal lobe- higher mental functioning, voluntary movement, personality, emotionality, reasoning etc
Broca's area- speech will still make sense, but will be slurred, laborious and poorly articulated. Conjunctions in speech will often be left out.
Primary motor cortex- directs the voluntary movement of the body, enabling fine movement
Parietal lobe- spacial perception. Bodily awareness in terms of touch, pain and body movement. Damage could cause difficulties in determining the spacial positions of objects in the individual's environment. Sensory elements such as pain may not be processed as effectively.
Somatosensory cortex- sensations may be heavily dulled as a result of damaged. The individual may not be able to understand the full extent of pain due to the altered ability to perceive core sensory elements sent to the brain.
Occipital lobe- is the primary visual area of the brain. It enables visual perception. Damage to the lobe could result in impaired visual ability or a gradual degeneration of vision.
Primary visual cortex- where visual information is processed to form our perception. Damage can cause impaired visual abilities. Severe damage can result in a degeneration of vision.
Temporal lobe- the main location where auditory information is received. Memory, Recognition of faces. Comprehension of written and spoken language. Damage can result in impaired hearing ability, loss of memory and speech which lacks meaning (if Wernicke's is damaged)
Primary auditory cortex- receives and processes auditory information
Wernicke's area- comprehension of written and spoken language. If damage occurs, speech will be meaningless but still fluent.

sisqo1111:
thanks a heap

Eriny:
If you still need help (which I doubt because Nick's answer was very comprehensive), I've uploaded a file on unit 3 which can be found here: http://notes.vcenotes.com/?step=download&subject=Psychology&units=
I list all the functions of the association and cortical areas in there.

sisqo1111:
umm yeah there both really good notes
but like, i know all those notes sorta but if you see the table, i just have trouble filling in the spaces.
so if i could get some helo wif that it would be great, like the real life example of damage occured.

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