Localisation

• What is localisarion?

  The idea that specific parts of the brain have specific functions
• What is contralateral control?

  Control of one side of the body by the opposite side of the brain
• What does the motor cortex control?

  Voluntary motor functions
• What does the somatosensory cortex do?

  Detects sensory events occurring around the body
• What does the Broca’s area do?

  Speech production
• What does the Wernicke’s area do?

  Language understanding
• What is some supporting evidence for Broca’s area?

  Fedorenko et al (2022) - fMRIs confirm cross-cultural localisation of language in Broca’s area in 45 different languages
• What evidence Broca find for Broca’s area?

  Patient ’Tan’ could understand sentences but couldn’t form them. A post-mortem revealed damage to an area of the frontal cortex (Broca’s area)
• What does Phineas Gage’s case study show about localisation?

  Damaged his frontal lobe and lost all inhibitions
• What does patient HM show about localisation?

  Damaged hippocampus and couldn’t transfer STM TO LTM
• What evidence contrasts localisation?

  Plasticity