PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lumosity, Paul Broca, Luigi Galvani
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Lecture 1 introduction to brain and behavior. A = the study of human beings and their behavior. The study of humans and their thoughts, behavior and actions. A = correlates the studies with the brain. A = the study of neurons and the nervous system. The goal of this course is to explore neuroscience in regards to psychology, and how neuroscience affects the brain and how it works. There are many things in which researchers still don"t know about this topics, however they are constantly learning. Neurons are the fundamental elements of the brain: they allow our brain to do all of the complicated things inside of them, they are rapidly produced. 100 billion (most common answer among researchers: however this all changed in 2009 when a researcher realized that nobody could properly access how many neurons were in the brain.
