PSYC 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Occipital Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Multiplication Table
2 Aug 2016
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Implications on cortical function for the use of action potentials. We don"t use receptor currents instead of action potentials even if their receptor potential is greater because action potential is immune to degradation. Use of action potential is due to the length that the current must flow. Bits of cortex look similar from anatomical sense from across the brain. Modularity of cortex is the fact that every part of the cortex looks similar. Survival rate is higher from bullet if its in frontal lobe of occipital lobe. You can understand how the brain works by looking at the brain after brain trauma. Close head injuries: result of rapid deceleration without penetration of skull. (concussion). Style: ability to recognize something that is similar. Was originally use for foraging to remember spatial locations where food was found. This has evolved into remembering a multiplication table. Colourwed lines are mri images taken by a software.
