KP361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Psychological Refractory Period, Tibialis Anterior Muscle, Fadeaway
5 Jan 2016
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Idea that rt is an index or a measurement of our ability to prepare a response. How efficiently our brain can figure out what we"re going to respond to, how we"re going to respond, and how quickly we will be able to get the message out to get our limbs to move. If we have only one response like hitting one specific key on the keyboard, the speed of conductions of your neurons and the idea of how to move to that key takes 200msec. Would take 200msec for the noise of gun to get to your ear ear makes a code goes into parietal lobe to make sense of it frontal lobe to tell you to start moving. Plan movement message gets sent down to your leg and you see the first push on the starting block in 200msec. If you know where you need to go, you are just waiting for the stimulus to set you off.
