PSYC 4600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Neuroscience, Myelin, Grey Matter
5 Mar 2017
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Investigation of the mental processes that allow humans and animals to perceive, remember, and generate thoughts and actions to help reach desired goals. The scientific study of the nervous system. Brain is physical, mind is non physical. Two levels of description/investigation of the same thing. Reduce all explanations of mind to biological constructs. Basic functions of cells + nucleus, synthesizes neurotransmitters. Dendrites: inputs to the neuron, signals from pre-synaptic neurons aggregate, branching off of cell dendrites inputs to neurons. Other body of cell is grey grey mater (cell body) 10-50 times that of glia cells glia most common cell type in the brain. We previously thought these were care takers making sure everything"s running good in the brain, making sure signal conduction happens more frequently. But later were discovered to include astrocytes that regulate the flow of glucose throughout the body and make up the blood brain barrier.
