Psych 454 Exam 1- Brain areas and function

Frontal lobe

decision making, planning, motor control

Parietal lobe

touch, spatial transformations, egocentric RF

Temporal lobe

hearing, higher level vison, concept cells

Occipital lobe

vision

First order thalamus

recieve major input directly from sensory periphery

Cerebral cortex

contains primary sensory areas, secondary sensory areas, and higher order areas, 6 layers with columns

Basal ganglia

action selection and reinforcement learning, regulates information processing in cortex

Cerebellum

automatic execution, receives commands from motor and prefrontal cortex, outputs predicted sensory movement

Hippocampus

episodic memory and spatial navigation, allocentric RF, pattern seperation and completion

Retrosplenial cortex (RSC)

spatial transformations, egocentric and allocentric RFs, connected with anterior thalamus to receive information about head direction

Posterior parietal cortex (PCC)

coordinate transformations

Medial temporal lobe

important for declarative memory

Neocortex

stores declarative memories