PSYC 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Sensory System, Brain Size
14 Sep 2016
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It takes 110 milliseconds for the sensory system to perceive stimulation: it takes 250 milliseconds for it to become conscious. The long neural highways in our brain take twenty-one years to develop, while the short. Behavior is a product and agent of the brain: culture, as well as the location of our birth, has a huge impact on our brain"s wiring. The brain affects behavior, just as behavior affects our brain. Even other wildlife has a different sense of vocabulary or sounds that ranges from region to region. A songbird in texas will have a different sound than a songbird in toronto: darwin"s finches is an example of how finches developed differently on two islands in close proximity. One group had long and narrow beaks while the others had shorter and thicker beaks. This was determined by one island having a drought, while the other did not.
