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Neuroscience Methods
• Primary responsibility:
integrating sensory
information (vision,
hearing, touch, etc.)
Lobes of the Brain: Temporal
• Is located right behind
your ear
Temporal Lobe
• Primary responsibility:
hearing
Lobes of the Brain: Frontal
• Is located at the front of
your brain
Frontal Lobe
• Primary responsibility:
memory, abstract
thinking, emotional
control, decision making,
etc.
Video: Self-Control
The Importance of the
Marshmallow Test
• Predicts higher SAT scores
• Predicts BMI at age 30
• Predicts divorce rates
• Predicts addiction rates
• Etc.
• Thalamus
– Relay station for
all sensory
information
– Filters information
and directs to
correct cortical
areas
• Visual information
to occipital cortex
Sub-Cortical Structures
• Hypothalamus
– Hunger, thirst,
sex, and
temperature
• Hippocampus
– Creation and
storage of
memories
– Damage to the
hippocampus may
result in the
inability to form
new memories
Hippocampal Damage:
Amnesia
Sub-Cortical Structures
• Amygdala
• Small group of
neurons next to
hippocampus
• Thought to be
important for
establishing
emotional memories
and responding to
emotional, esp.
negative stimuli.
A Note on Culture
• It is important to point out that while all of these structures are
found in most everyone’s brain, that there are differences
across individuals and across cultures.