Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brenda Milner, Implicit Memory, Fugue State

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Damage to the prefrontal cortex area leads to a variety of problems, including problems planning. Structure modulates the strength of emotional memories and is involved in emotional learning is the amygdala. Pet scans and fmri provide info about the amount of dynamic blood flow to various regions of the brain. A cell that accumulates and transmits electrochemical activity in the nervous system. There are approximately 100 billion neurons in the human brain that are simultaneously active to process information. Should be able to fill in graph of nerves from this slide. Branch-like structures extending from the cell soma. Receive information from terminal buttons of adjacent neurons. Varies in length (a few mm to a meter) Provides the fixed paths by which neurons communicate with one another. Ball-like structures located at the ends of axon branches. Near-contact gap, separating the terminal bouton of one neuron and the dendrite (or soma) of the next neuron in the chain.