PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Neuroscience
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Poorly disseminated information especially when brain is involved: media misrepresents and misinterprets volatile information. Parents eager to encourage their children"s neurodevelopment: brain stimulation products (e. g. baby einstein, guilt sometimes arises if this doesn"t happen, rauscher, shaw et al. Played university students mozart sonata and then participated in iq test. Temporary increase in iq for those who listened to mozart. Twisted to play mozart prenatally to foetus and it will come out a genuis": public refuses to let go. Nature and nurture work together here: experience is important, but it isn"t everything. Neuron basic unit of the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Composed of cell body, myelin-wrapped axon, dendrites, and terminal buttons: beginnings of the human brain 50 to 100 billion neurons (most in place at birth, adult brain weighs 1. 5kg. Cerebral cortex is split into two hemispheres connected by corpus callosum: frontal lobe is largely responsible for personality. What accounts for brain growth: myelin sheath.