Localisation of Function

• Cerebral cortex is the outer part of the brain
• Frontal lobe - responsible for moving, personality and high level thinking
• Parietal lobe - rsponsible for processing inforamtion from the senses
• Occipital lobe - responsible for 3D vision, visual processing, and visual memory
• Temporal lobe - responsible for hearing and auditory processing
• Aphasia - someone unable to understand or produce speech
• Broca’s aphasia - During a post portem he found that Patient Tan had large lesion in left frontal lobe that he named “Broca’s area”
• AO3 for Broca - Dronkers et al found that’d other areas of patient Tan’s brain were also damage, holistic appproach
• Supporting evidence - H.M had epilepsy, removed hippocampus in hope of curing it and then was unable to form any new long term memories
• Supporting evidence - Phineas gage, rod impales his left frontal lobe, following this he became aggressive (created assumption that left frontal lobe affects personality)
• AO3 - most supporting evidence is small scale studies which aren't generalisable to the general population