PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Formaldehyde, Horseradish Peroxidase, Positron Emission Tomography
16 Oct 2020
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Brain builds the perceived reality; everything you see is your brains active imagination/reaction; virtual vs actual reality get sown together. Bandwidth of awareness 100 bits per second, way below a dialup connection. Brains weight 2% of the body"s weight. Brains energy consumption 20% of body"s energy consumption. Color and brightness are actively created in the brain (ex. pic where colors look diff but are actually the same because takes into consideration things like sun) Body perception is actively created in the brain: temporal parietal junction induces out of body experiences (ex. knowing how you are sitting in a chair) Brain mysteries: the way we see/think about things is shaped in the way our brain shapes them; our own perceived reality , people will never understand brain until understand this reality like dark energy. Study of microscopic structures and tissues that allows for observation of structure, organization, and connections of individual cells.
