PSY100H1 Study Guide - Neuropsychology, Grey Matter, Microtome
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Psy353 lecture 1 social processing can be social behaviour, how we feel from external social cues, how we receive and interpret social info (perception) Can study lang. dev. by using children w/ different abilities in language (at different stages of language development) Postmortem brain tissue (person/animal dead, take out brain) sliding microtome: machine that slices brain into cross sections of adjustable size and thickness. Brains of children more difficult to work with b/c the are underdeveloped. 4) ex. white matter different from grey matter. Based on general locations of brain areas in average person. Also a disadvantage of fmri"s b/c each human brain is unique b/c of experience. Probe measures electrical signals emitted by brain from outside your skull. Advantage: not sensitive tro movement b/c data are average out. Event -related potentials interesed in direction of change in electrical activity in a graph, negative moves up and positive moves down.
