Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Karyotype, Critical Period, Sickle-Cell Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Neuron a and b synapse with neuron c. when only neuron a fires, action potential is generated in neuron c. if no potential is observed in c when both a&b are stimulated, neuron b generates an ipsp. Motor, somatosensory, visual and auditory located next to primary projection areas (cortex) Can do separate actions but cannot put them together. Whatever is perceived by primary sensory cortex does not make any sense: prosopagnosia inability to recognize faces due to damage in fusiform gyrus. Connecting fibre bundle connects two areas that are affected. For e. g. the eye, some fibres cross over, visual field is controlled by opposite hemispheres. For right-handers, if corpus callosum is severed, an image on the left side (right visual field) cannot be interpreted with language. Actions related to the hemisphere of the visual field can be done. Genes: strand-like molecules of dna linked on chromosomes.