Cognitive Brain Function

What is the Hierarchial Organization of the Sensory Systems?

Hierarchial Organization of Sensory Systems - Association Cortex

Example of Hierarchial Network

What are the Three Main Multimodal Association Areas?

Example of Association Areas

What DEFICIT is caused by DAMAGE to the Higher Levels?

Prenfrontal Damage alters Plannig and Personality: Phineas Gage

How does Information CONVERGE from UNIMODAL to MULTIMODAL Areas?

Serial and Parallel Processing of Sensory Information

How does Vision run in PARALLEL Streams, each with SERIAL Stages?

Sequence of Information Processing is Reversed in the Motor System

What are the Specialised LANGUAGE AREAS in the Brain?

What is ASYMMETRICAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING?

What is APHASIA?

1) Broca’s, motor, nonfluent aphasia

2) Wernicke’s aphasia- fluent speech, poor comprehension

3) Aphasia in bilinguals (order, fluency, use of language)

4) Aphasia and sign language

Asymmetrical Language Processing - SPLIT BRAIN STUDIES

Question 1

Summary