PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Growth Factor, Astrocyte, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andree- Anne Ledoux

Document Summary

Structural development can be studied and correlated with the emergence of behaviour: 2. Behavioural development can be analyzed and predictions made about what underlying ciruitry must be emerging. Give a specific task, or by observation, we can observe the behaviour and then we can predict/correlate/associate with a certain structure developing: 3. Factors that influence both brain structure and behaviour development, such as language or injury, can be studied. We can investigate factors like hormones and injury and see how they influence the beahviour and structure of the brain at the same time. Structural development with behaviour: when a baby starts grasping, a certain region in their motor cortex has matured, we can look at the frontal lobe. If you are 10, you cannot do this task. You need to reproduce the goal with the discs that are laid out. Forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain are visible in the human embryo at this time.