Neuropsychiatry
Memory
Attention
- Overlap with short term memory
- may be based in prefrontal cortex
Spatial Attention
- mapping of 3-D space
- Right inferior parietal cortex, cingulate gyrus
- damage leads to neglect
Temporal / Sustained
- disordered in acute confusional states
- easily distractable
- need sensory input at night (e.g. lights left on)
- caused by
- meningitis, epileptic fits, head injury, etc.
- difficulty laying down memory
Language
- underlying structure same in different languages so probably genetically
programmed (Chompsky)
- Steven Pinker - "The Language Instinct"
- Broca - expression
- Wernicke - perception
Perception
- superior temporal gyrus
- preservation of fluent linguistic output
- but as no feedback
- long-winded
- sometime gibberish
- causes stroke, trauma, dementia
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