GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medulla Oblongata, Cerebral Cortex, Brainstem

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 73A
• Professor: Chandler, S.H.

Document Summary

Creates a sensory reality each species has a view of the world that helps it survive. Integrating information- current knowledge can be compared with past knowledge. Central nervous system : brain, spinal cord, cauda equine. Proprioception: the sense of where your limbs are in space. Something is anterior to the other (look at ppt) Back of spinal cord is dorsal and front part of spinal cord is ventral ( to be consistent between two legged organisms and four legged organisms. Frontal- coronal looking at the brain straight on from the face. Sagittal or mid sagittal cut along the whole length ( down the middle) Nucleus a group of neurons in the brain that controls a specific function (2 nd way of using the term) Die- 4 parts, but focusing on two, the thalamus (called a relay because the info comes in and it sends the info to other places) relays allowed info to be modified at synapses.