NBB 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rhesus Macaque, Thalamus, Proprioception
14 Apr 2016
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Prompt: explain how the human brain has evolved as part of an embodied system for interacing with social and material surroundings. Be sure to clarify what is unique about human cogniive adaptaions, and use this comparaive insight to explain what is unique about the human niche. Managing the terrestrial, omnivorous, extractive and intensely social. Neocortex: inluences emoion and senses feelings hypothalamus, amygdala. Neocortex: informaion mapper that uses propriocepion and makes up majority of the brain. Gestures: movement of arms, posture, mouth, etc. to socially interact using the body. Consciousness/feelings of the body afects decisions to form gestures, get others" atenion and have other social interacions: may even be decepive. Feeling: a composiion of interocepion, propriocepion, balance, etc. Afect: emoion-mediated atunement to surroundings, feelings, and thoughts. Balance: muscle & tendon stretching hypothalamus & brain stem somatosensory complex. Visually perceiving others appearance/acions: allows ability to associate others" feelings and inter others" thoughts/decisions.
