PSY 1101 Lecture : 5th lecture.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Studying the brain: brain damage: how the brain is mapped, which part of the brain controls what functions, etc, lesion, selectively destroy area of the brain, electroencephalogram and neuroimaging techniques, look at brain"s electrical activity or metabolic activity. Eeg: measures the electrical activity of the brain. Measure of timing of brain"s information processing. A lot of randomness to these waves, because there so much going on. What you do to get the event, you time your eeg to the time you get the stimulus. What your brain was doing, and you do this hundreds of time and . Radioactive glucose: emits positrons as it decays, scanner detects the location of the radioactivity. Mri: detailed 3-d image of the brain. Magnetic field passed through the head, this causes: causes atoms to spin in the same direction/orientation, brief radio wave pulse passed through the head. Resonance frequency (not in textbook do not need to know for exam)