PSYC 2307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homo Sapiens, Integral Membrane Protein, Information Processing

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2307
• Professor: Brian Tansley

Document Summary

The nervous system has evolved to manage and process information which requires: transduction/detection: converting stimulus event into neural events. Eg. light/sound into nervous signals, and nervous signals into muscle activity: coding: evaluating, categorizing, organizing, assembling and preparing information for further coding, transmission and/or storage. [ie. processing information, taking forms of energy into other forms of energy: communicating: transferring information from one place in space/time to another. Up until the point in evolution when we were able to store information outside of out nervous system, information was passed from one person to another. The urge to take information and store it outside our cns through art, music, books, etc is what makes us human. Information processing within cells led to correlated action and specialization of cellular organelles resulting in increased functional cellular complexity. The cells of the ns evolve to utilize some of the same processes for information transmission.