PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Radioactive Tracer, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe
18 Jun 2013
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Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem atlantic. You can"t just look at face value on a picture of the brain and assume you know what it means statistical test rejected the null hypothesis for one test only. You have to make sure that you are accounting for comparisons. Must be critical when you"re reading results. Scintillating grid: count the black dots lateral inhibition in central surround cells. Different receptive fields in cells, same effect but are represented in different parts of the brain. Explains why when looking directly at the dot they appear white as they lie directly on the fovea cells respond to contrast, respond when there is an edge. Determined primarily using nissl and golgi stains. Brodmann"s: divided the parts he could visually see were different. With new imaging, brodmann"s areas have been broken up. Directional terms for referring to parts of cns.
