NEUR 2P36 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Meninges, Retina

• School: Brock University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 2P36
• Professor: Dawn Good

Document Summary

Study of the physiological, evolutionary, and developmental mechanisms of behaviour and experience: With an emphasis is on the study of the brain. Neuron activity somehow produces and explains, behaviour and experience. All of our thoughts, experience and actions are direct reflections of the activity of the brain. (cid:862)the physi(cid:272)al (cid:271)asis of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d e(cid:374)(cid:272)roa(cid:272)hes (cid:373)ore and more upon the study of mind, but there remain mental events which seem to be beyond any physiology of the brain. When i turn my gaze sky(cid:449)ard i see the flatte(cid:374)ed do(cid:373)e of sky a(cid:374)d the su(cid:374)"s (cid:271)rillia(cid:374)t dis(cid:272) a(cid:374)d a hu(cid:374)dred other visible things underneath it. A pencil of light from the sun enters the eye and is focused on the retina. It gives rise to a change, which in turn travels to the nerve-layer at the top of the brain. The whole chain of these events, from the sun to the top of my brain, is physical.