PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Sleep Deprivation
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Chapter 3: consciousness and 2 track-mind: brain states and consciousness, consciousness, awareness of ourselves and our environment, focuses our behaviour when learning, cope with behaviours and act in our long-term interests, biology of consciousness, cognitive neuroscience. Study of the brain linked with our neural processes. Brain enables the mind: dual processing: the two-tracked mind. Visual perception track: think about the world. Your body plays with body temperature depending on the time of the day (warm when waking up, vis versa: sleep stages. To measure sleep, use alpha waves on eeg. Nrem-1 sleep: experience fantastic images resembling hallucinations. Nrem-2 sleep: bursts of rapid brain activity, definitely sleeping, 20 min. Nrem-3 sleep: slow delta waves, hard to wake up, 30 minutes: rem sleep. After an hour or so of sleep, you ascend, going back to nrem-2 then enter rem sleep. Basically paralyzed (but motor cortex is still active) Genital arousal (during all dreams except very scary: affecting sleep patterns:
