PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neuroplasticity, Brainstem, Arcuate Fasciculus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Patrick Davidson

Document Summary

Ten principles: the nervous system produces movement within a perceptual world the brain constructs a. Information is stored in the nervous system only if neural connections change i. Brain is highly malleable to information: many brain circuits are crossed, each hemisphere receives sensory stimulation from the opposite (contralateral) side of the body and controls muscles on the contralateral side as well i. Right side controls left, left side controls right: the cns functions on multiple levels, simple animals, such as worms, have a spinal cord. These levels must be extensively interconnected to integrate their processing and produce unified perceptions or movements. i. Anatomy of language and music - processing language: aphasia a. Inability to speak or comprehend language despite the presence of normal comprehension or intact vocal mechanisms: broca"s i. ii. iii. iv. Inability to speak fluently despite presence of (relatively) normal comprehension and intact vocal mechanisms.