Darkthorn’s Blog

- planning complex motor actions, problem solving, thinking ahead, establishing priorities, forming and recalling memories, speaking

- many of the areas associated with cognition are new

- archicortex and paleocortex – formation and storage of declarative memories

- lesions cause anterograde amnesia – inability to form new memories

- hippocampus and medial-temporal cortex – long term memories

- neocortex – primary/secondary sensory areas and motor and association cortex

- amount of neocortex increases according to relative increase in cortex size

- frontal cortex – dorsolateral region

- motor planning (posterior)

- working memory (central)

- long term planning (anterior)

- orbitofrontal region

- defines our personalities

- premotor cortex – planning complex motor responses and learning new skills

- posterior pareital cortex – visual, auditory and learning new skills converge to produce an internal ‘map’ of the world we see

- legions of the parietal lobe can cause problems with focusing on this ‘world map’