Neuropsychology

Occipital lobe anatomy image

Connections to the visual cortex image

Subdivisions of the Occipital Lobe image

Summary of the Visual Processing Hierarchy image

Major parietal lobe gyri and sulci image

Brodmann’s cytoarchitectonic
regions image - parietal lobe

von Economo’s cytoarchitectonic
regions image - parietal lobe

Summary of major symptoms of parietal-lobe damage

Standardized clinical neuropsychological tests
for parietal-lobe damage

Lateral view of Temporal Lobe image

Auditory and Visual areas of Temporal Lobe image

Medial View of Temporal Lobe image

Brodmann’s areas of Temporal Lobe image

Von Bonin and Baileys areas of Temporal Lobe image

Major Intracortical
Connections of the
Monkey’s Temporal Lobe image

Summary of major symptoms of temporal-lobe damage

Standardized clinical neuropsychological tests
for temporal-lobe damage

Spinal (spinal cord) image

Low decerebrate (hindbrain) image

High decerebrate (midbrain) image

Diencephalic
(hypothalamus, thalamus) image

Decorticate (basal ganglia) image

Typical (cortex) image

Comparison of Cortical Layers image

Multisensory Areas in
the Monkey Cortex image

Summary of studies demonstrating
anatomical asymmetry

Right temporal
lobectomy - lateralized lesions

Left temporal
lobectomy - lateralized lesions

Summary of data on cerebral lateralization

Summary of handedness in
performing various tasks

Variations in anatomical asymmetry
related to handedness

Tasks favoring men image

Tasks favoring women image

Sex difference: Effects of Injury on Verbal and Performance IQ image
Interhemispheric effect

3 symptoms that do not fit with the visuomotor view of temporal lobe damage

Aculculia

Somatosensory symptoms of Parietal Lobe lesions

Somatoperceptual disorders

Simultaneous extinction

Blind touch

Asomatognosia

Balint's Syndrome

Contralateral Neglect

Symptoms of Posterior Parietal lobe damage

Gertmanns Syndrome

Parietal Lobe Main Functions

Temporal Lobe Main Functions

Effects of left- and
right-parietal lesions compared

H.H.
Temporal Lobe Damage

Insula

STS

Medial Temporal Cortex

Temporal parietal Junction

Connections of the temporal cortex

5 Major Intracortical connections

Theory of Temporal lobe function

Symptoms of Temporal lobe damage

Localization of Function

7 principles of Brain Organization

Distinguish between a decerebrate and decorticate.

Low Decebrate

High Decerebration

Decorticate

Multimodal (polymodal) cortex

Paralimbic cortex

Primary motor cortex (M1)

Association area

Multisensory Areas in
the Monkey Cortex Explanation

Column

Horizontal Layers of the Cortex

Multiple Representations

Levels of Function

2 Categories of Cortical Neurons

Feedback loops

Re-Entry

Binding Problem

Flechsigs Cortical Regions

Lurias Cortical Units

Flechsigs cortical division and Lurias cortical units

Luria - sensation to action

Lurias Model = three assumptions

Felleman and van Essens Model

Specific Afferents

Nonspecific Afferents

2 Types of Multimodal Cortex

Unique properties of the human brain

Four Principles of Asymmetry

Efron's Story

8 Anatomical differences between hemispheres

Double dissociation

What are the methods used to determine principles of cerebral asymmetry

Split brain speech phenomenon

Results of Lesions on Language Asymmetry

Brain Stimulation - Asymmetry

WADA test

Time Sharing Experiments

Evidence of asymmetry in the intact brain

ERPs, PET, fMRI and Asymmetry

Unilateral Specialization Models

Interaction Models

Preferred Cognitive Mode

What happens when the corpus callosum is disconnected?

What is the largest area of asymmetry?

Challenges to measuring behaviour in Neuropyschology

What are the theories of hand preference?

5 Categories of sex differences - Kimura

Evidence AGAINST sex differences being environmental

Goldstein Hormones in Sex differences

Sex differences - research with neurological patients

Theories to explain sex differences of cerebral organization

Fluctuations in Spine Density

Hormonal effects on sex differences of cerebral organization

Evidence for Asymmetry in NON humans

What does asymmetry in nonhumans imply regarding asymmetry in humans?

How might the environment influence cerebral asymmetry?

Sex differences revealed in Functional Imaging Studies

Anatomical differences in brain of females and males

What accounts for individual variation in anatomical organization?

How is the brain of left handers organized relative to right handers?

geniculostriate pathway

tectopulvinar pathway

Primary visual cortex

Figure 13.10

monocular
blindness

bitemporal hemianopia

nasal hemianopia

homonymous
hemianopia

quadrantanopia

Macular sparing

Scotoma

Receptive field

Visual field

Visual Imagery

apperceptive agnosia

associative agnosia

Types of Agnosia

Conclusions from Occipital damage case studies

Visual disorder - Case of DB

Visual disorder - Case of GY

Visual disorder - Case of BK

Visual disorder - Case of JI

Visual disorder - Case of PB

Visual disorder - Case of LM

Visual disorder - Case of DF

Visual disorder - Case of VK

Visual Disorders - Case D patient

Visual Disorders - Case T patient

Top-down sensory processes

5 categories of vision

Vision for action

Action for Vision

Visual Recognition

Visual Space

Visual Attention

Dorsal Stream

Ventral Stream

STS stream occpital

Visual pathways BEYOND the occipital Lobe

polysensory neurons

V1

4 Basic Principles of occiptal cortex connections

Subdivisions of the Occipital Cortex

Tests to study occipital lobe function

What is asymmetrical about spatial cognition in the parietal lobes?

Anosagnosia

Allesthesia

Agraphia

Alexia

Apraxia

Spatial Attention

Subdivisions of the Parietal cortex

Connections to the Parietal Cortex

Theory of Parietal lobes

3 functional pathways leaving the
posterior parietal region

5 tasks of the parietal lobe

What are the two uses of Spatial Information

What tests can be used to examine parietal lobe function

How could language and arithmetic be used in the parietal lobe

Prosody

Fundamental Frequency

Formant

Cortical Deafness

Cross Modal matching

Visual Processing in the Temporal Lobe

6 Ventral Stream pathways of the temporal lobe

Are faces special?

Asymmetry in face recognition

Asymmetry of Temporal lobe function

Classes of temporal lobe symptoms

What type of clinical tests would be appropriate for identifying temporal lobe injury?

4 Functional Regions of the Frontal Lobe

Primary Motor Cortex

Premotor Cortex

Prefrontal Cortex

Anterior Cingulate Cortex

All of Brodmanns areas

Corollary Discharge

Phineas Gage

Pseudodepression

Pseudopsychopathy