Class Notes for Neuroscience at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

Nroc64 lec 3: the central visual system. Slide 3: y short answer question: bipolar cells in the fovea (and elsewhere) differ as to how they are activat

Eye movements are motor control that are fairly simple; 3 pairs of agonist/antagonist muscles only = more simpler than having multiple joints and arm m

Nroc64 : lec 4 : auditory and vestibular systems. Slide 10: auditory system, outer ear, auditory canal = amplifies certain frequencies and protects oth

People in europe knew very little about africa: this is similar to how we know things about the brain. If the brain was simple, it would not have the c

In the resting state, rods and cones are depolarized. Bipolar cells: they can either be bipolar cells that preserve the effects seen in photoreceptors

We study drosohpila because it"s the workhorse for neuropscyhology. Its sutdied b/c it can be genetially manip, have simple n. s, reproduce fast, lots

-> this actually closely explains what humans actually do = humans integrate multiple senses in very optimal fashion (although not perfect) Same thing

Video assignment: at 10:15 on the 2 fridays look at animal behaving and observe, describe and write what they are doing, will only be shown once. Poste

It is the first visual area in the cortex. In humans it is medial and near the occipital cortex: v1 is tucked inside the cortex even though it is a ver

The role of dopamine and serotonin in anorexia nervosa: [1] fladung, a. k. , gr n, g. , grammer, k. , herrnberger, b. , schilly, e. , grasteit, s. , wo

What do kcs use the olfac info from pns for? (learning) and talking ab/ the oscillations in the struc that help the temporal timing of input and how th