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Psych 202January 10, 2013Forebrain, Telencephalon Lobes of the Brain (continued)Temporal lobePrimary Auditory Cortex: receives auditory inputAuditory association cortex: analyzes auditory informationAuditory perceptions Occipital LobePrimary Visual Cortex (PVC): Recieves input from the contralateral side of the visual fieldVisual Association Cortex: Surrounds PVC and extends into the ventral temporal lobe. Analyzes visual informationVisual perception and memory storagePrimary cortex is the closest to the outsideHalves of the CortexLeft: Sequential processing, language production, language comprehensionAnything that has to happen in order (ex: remembering a phone number)Right: Global processing, nonverbal stimuli, spatial processing, navigation, facial recognition, emotion Things that do not have to happen in a sequential order. (ex: looking at a giant mural, you can look at any part of the mural to take it in)Ex: looking at a mapBody language happens hereCortical ConnectionsCorpus Callosum: Thick axon bundle connecting corresponding regions of each hemisphereCoordinates sensory processing and motor output between the hemisphereSplit-brain patient: Not having a corpus callosum or is sliced in half. Used to treat severe epilepsy. Subcortical BrainLimbic SystemLocated within the telencephalon, surrounded by cerebral cortexAmygdala: controls emotionHippocampus, fornix, mammillary bodies: Learning and memoryNucleus accumbens: Reinforcement Cingulate cortex/gyrus: AttentionOlfactory bulb: Sense of smellBasal GangliaInvolved in motivation and generation of movementStriatum: Caudate nucleus,