🎯 Higher Order Brain Functions
Language, Memory & Lateralization
🧠↔️🧠 Cerebral Lateralization
🧠⬅️ Left Hemisphere
🗣️ Language & Speech
📝 Reading & Writing
🔢 Math & Logic
📊 Analytical
➡️ Controls Right Body
🧠➡️ Right Hemisphere
🎨 Spatial Processing
🎵 Music & Art
😊 Facial Recognition
🧩 Holistic/Gestalt
⬅️ Controls Left Body
🗣️ Language Processing
👂
Hear Speech
Auditory Input
➡️
🧠
Wernicke's
Comprehension
➡️
🔗
Arcuate
Fasciculus
➡️
🗣️
Broca's
Production
➡️
🎤
SPEAK!
Motor Output
⬇️
⚠️
Broca's Aphasia
Can't Produce
⚠️
Wernicke's Aphasia
Can't Understand
✂️ Split-Brain Studies
✂️
Commissurotomy
Cut Corpus Callosum
⬇️
⬅️👁️
Left Visual
→ Right Brain
👁️➡️
Right Visual
→ Left Brain
⬇️
❤️
HEART Test
"HE" spoken | "ART" pointed
💾 Memory Systems
💾
MEMORY
⬇️
⚡
Sensory
Milliseconds
➡️
📝
Short-Term
Seconds-Minutes
➡️
📚
Long-Term
Permanent
⬇️
📖
Declarative
Facts/Events
🚴
Procedural
Skills/Habits
⬇️
📅
Episodic
Personal Events
📗
Semantic
General Facts
🧠 Memory Brain Areas
🌊
Hippocampus
Memory Formation
🔺
Amygdala
Emotional Memory
🧠
Prefrontal
Working Memory
🏀
Cerebellum
Motor Memory
⬇️
⚠️
Hippocampal Damage
→ Severe Amnesia (H.M.)
🔄 Brain Plasticity & Neurogenesis
🌱
Neurogenesis
New Neurons!
🔗
Synaptogenesis
New Connections
💪
LTP
Strengthen Paths
⬇️
🎻
Experience
Changes Brain
🏠
Enrichment
More Dendrites
📚
Learning
2000 cells/hr
✋ Handedness & Lateralization
🫱
Right-Handed
92% Left Language
🫲
Left-Handed
70% Left Language
⬇️
💉
WADA Test
Determines Language Side
⬅️ Motivational States
🏠 PSYP610
📊 Complete Guide
⬆️
🏠
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