PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Somatic Nervous System

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Albert einstein died in april 1955 - his brain was removed by tom harvey. Tom harvey injected it with formalin to preserve it and took it. Harvey read about the scienti c work of sandra witelson and offered her the brain to examine. She compared the results of her examination of einstein s brain with other control brains. Hi brain was similar to most other brains with the exception of a wider parietal region and distinct sylvian ssure. -> visuospatial cognition mathematical thought, and imagery of movement are strongly dependent on this region. Behaviour depends on complex information processing in the nervous system. Cells in the nervous system receive integrate, and transmit information. They normally transmit a neural impulse along an axon to a synapse with another neuron. The neural impulse is a brief change in a neuron s electrical charge that move along an axon. An action potential is an all- or-none event.