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April1 TemporalLobes
April1 TemporalLobes
April1 TemporalLobes
• Biological Motion
– Movements relevant to a
species
– Allow us to guess others’
intentions
– Social Cognition or “theory of
mind”
This data
suggests that
cells in the STS
are maximally
sensitive to
primate bodies
that are moving
in a particular
direction
Visual Processing
Visual Processing
– Findings:
• Extensive activity in the auditory and visual regions
in the temporal lobe, in the STS and cingulate
regions
• Selective activation to precise moment-to-moment
film content
One particular region in the dogs’
temporal lobes responded more
strongly to stills or movies of dog
and human faces than it did to
inanimate objects, like a desk
chair.
http://www.neuropolicy.emory.edu/resources/index.html
Visual Processing
• Music Perception
– Patients with temporal lobe injuries illustrate
that the left temporal lobe plays a major
role in temporal grouping for rhythm,
whereas the right hemisphere plays a role
in meter (beat)
– Right temporal lobe special function in
extracting pitch from sound regardless if the
sound is speech or music
• Prosody - “tone of voice” or pitch in speech
Auditory Processing
Music Perception
Musicians have a larger volume of gray and white matter in Heschl’s gyrus
Fundamental pitch listener’s -
leftward asymmetry
Spectral-pitch listeners -
rightward asymmetry
Symptoms of Temporal-Lobe Lesions
• Auditory Disturbance
• Disorders of Music Perception
• Impaired organization and categorization
• Inability to use contextual information
• Memory problems
• Altered personality and affective behaviour
• Altered sexual behaviour
Imaging Auditory Hallucinations
•Auditory hallucinations
most common symptom
•Verbal hallucinations
activate primary auditory
cortex & Broca’s area
Schizophrenia
Disorders of Visual Perception
RECALL:
“A woman was robbed and went to the police station where
they made her a new purse. She had some children too.”
Mr. B
Tumour of the right temporal lobe.
Surgery
Ms. C
Affect and Personality