Psych Notes: Cerebral Cortex

1. Frontal Lobe: abstract thought and emotional control
• contains Motor Cortex: sends signals to our body controlling muscle movement
• contains Broca's Area: responsible for controlling muscles that produce speech
• damage to Broca's Area is called Broca's Aphasia: unable to make movements to talk
2. Parietal Lobe
• contain Sensory Cortex: receives incoming touch sensations from rest of the body
• most of the parietal lobe are made up of Association Areas: any area not associated with receiving sensory information or coordination muscle movements (anything not a motor or sensory area)
3. Occipital Lobe: deals with vision
• contains Visual Cortex: interprets messages from our eyes into images we can understand
4. Temporal Lobe: process sound sensed by our ears
• contains Wernike's Area: interprets written and spoken speech
• damage to this area is called Wernike's Aphasia: unable to understand language; the syntax and grammar jumbled