PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alessandro Volta, Neurofibrillary Tangle, Luigi Galvani
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Playing mozart"s music to infants boosts their intelligence. Testing students when listening to mozart the students spatial skills were better only temporarily thought. 1998- governor of georgia provides every child with classical music. Not mozart effect, but rather and enjoyment arousal . Listening to a passage from stephen king can result in the same kind of improvement. As long as you are interested in the topic you focus more on it and do better on a spatial test. Dr. drew wakefield did a study that linked vaccinations to autism. Other experimenters tried to replicate the studies and couldn"t find a link then discovered that wakefield had no statistics, control group, relied on people"s memories, made vague conclusions that weren"t statistically valid. Neurophysiology: the generation, transmission, and integration of neural signals. The neuron: basic unit of the nervous system, communication-electrical signals sent to other neurons and other parts of the body, to receive info and pass it on.
