Neurosurgery notes/Anatomy/Higher function

Higher function

Definition

  • Syntactic processing:
    • Is the process of analysing the grammatical structure of a sentence to understand its meaning. This involves identifying the different parts of speech in a sentence, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and how they relate to each other in order to give proper meaning to the sentence.
  • Engram
    • Is a unit of cognitive information imprinted in a physical substance, theorized to be the means by which memories are stored