#temporal lobe

[sarawolfheart]

Informational diagram: How sensory information is processed by the brain

Sensory information is taken in by the occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and/or the olfactory lobe.

The lobes send the sensory information to the somatosensory cortex.

The somatosensory cortex sends the information to the thalamus, which connects to the limbic system.

The information is sent to the amygdala, which gives initial/primal reactions to the stimuli.

The amygdala's reactions (including fight or flight response) are sent to the hippocampus, hypothalamus, and the frontal cortex.

The pituitary gland receives signals from the hypothalamus, then sends signals for the endocrine system to excrete hormones throughout the body. The frontal cortex sends rationalized information to the motor cortex, which controls voluntary actions.

Source linked below: "Meet Your Master - Getting to Know Your Brain: Crash Course Psychology #4" by Hank Green's Crash Course - February 24th, 2014

[itchynia]

sum brain lobes

info down here

Andrew,Tem,Esthe,Audax

andrew is based off from the giant vietnamese centipede (scolopendra denhaai) but I often refer to them as Malaysian cherry red centipede because why not

usually,the GVC is brown or yellowish orange but in his case it's cherry red because he's actually based off the same centipede i caught a year back which was obviously the GVC but cherry red.The red accents in his color palette also represents the cherry red centipede

his fangs are moderately venomous,but they inflict maximum pain enough to send a grown,handsome,soldier down to the floor whining

Audax is mainly based off the bold jumper (phidippus audax) and it's last name in its scientific name is how he got his name

but in reality,personality is like a bold jumper,extra intelligence because he's also a portia,and venom like a Sydney funnel web.Im a atheist but,god forbid he bites you.

Tem's body built looks exactly like Melissa King from The Pitt

Those weird things behind her head are just tufts

Esthe,as the parietal lobe,experiences the same pain as the host.For example,if the host gets a painful prick from a needle,she will feel the same only instead the needle is not causing it.Just straight up imaginary pain but if feels too real.

Esthe is my only character to have straight hair

[eggsharked]

Did people adjust quicker to your new name or new pronouns

People Generally adjusted to my new pronouns quicker

People Generally adjusted to my new name quicker

People Generally adjusted to both the name and pronouns at the same rate

Voting ended onJul 10, 2024

I'm making this poll because I noticed its taking my family longer to adjust to my new pronouns rather than my new name which they got quickly. So I decided to look into if this was some neurological thing. Nerd stuff under cut

Turns out it could be. Speech comprehension and speech production both occur in the Temporal Lobe. However names and pronouns seem to activate different parts of the Temporal Lobe. Names seem to be in the anterior temporal lobe. According to this study called Cortical processing of reference in language revealed by computational models pronouns are in the medial temporal lobe. Now this mostly has to do with pronouns being similar to memory retrieval because we see a phrase like "Rosie is coming over here. I heard she likes flowers" The human brain will see the text "she" and go wait who is that, oh its Rosie. Still fascinating that names and pronouns are in different areas of the Temporal Lobe and could explain the different times it takes to adjust both names and pronouns.

My other way less educated theories are people already go by multiple names commonly so its easier to switch someones name. Think of all the nicknames we give each other. Just take being online my IRL friends call me egg anytime we are online despite them knowing my name. Or like if you call your grandfather something like "papa" and your parents refer to them with their full name both of you still know who you are referring to as that person has multiple names. So when someone changes their name trans or not is easier to kinda slot that into the list of that persons names.

Other theory is that names are generally more abstract and complicated. Just compare any name to a pronoun and most of the time the name is longer / harder to say. So since the thought of saying a name might take longer its easier to interrupt that thought and be like wait no they have a new name. But since pronouns are quicker and maybe more "automatic" there is less time to interrupt that thought.

Ofc this is from my English view I'm sure language processing and where names vs pronouns are stored in the brain could vary by language. Especially languages that have gendered nouns and verbs like (Spanish, French, Hebrew etc.)

[instroyer]

[chronically-issy]

Holy fucking shit here I am at 5am and I've just had a BREAKTHROUGH. I just read "Patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy show abnormal secretion of melatonin, a sleep related hormone with a characteristic circadian pattern."

I had focal seizures all yesterday and today my body doesn't know how to sleep. I'm slowly uncoding my temporal lobe epilepsy.

[er-cryptid]

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[psych-statements]

How to understand the brain, part 1: the lobes. 

The brain has a lot of different structures and areas that are all significant in their own ways. There are 4 major lobes and two outward structures that are important. And this is just the cortex, within the brain there are more structures that come into play in our complex cognition and behavior.

[neurosciencenews]

Can't Remember a Name? Blame the Left Side of Your Brain

The study – led by University of Manchester psychologists – is the first of its kind to assess the similarities and differences in how the left and right sides of the brain process semantic memory.

The research is in Cerebral Cortex. (full open access)