PSYC 2012- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)
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09/06/17- lecture 3: brain and cognition: brain structure and function, brain localization, brain plasticity, neuron- cell specialized in sending messaged from part of the body to another. Whether it gets more excitatory than inhibitory messages: a neuron sends messages through action potential propagation, synapse- gap between two neurons across which neural messages are transmitted with neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter- chemical that transmits neural signal between neurons. Chapter 2: brain and cognition: brain structure and function, brain localization, brain plasticity, brain localization, cerebral cortex- most recently evolved part of the brain; responsible for higher mental processes. The cerebral cortex is a big sheet; and is divided into 4 lobes: 1) frontal lobe, 2) parietal love, 3) occipital lobe, 4) temporal love, sensory registration is spatiotopic- parts close on body are close in brain. They know what they want to say but cannot say it area of cortex colonizes hand area: brain imaging, electroencephalography (eeg)- records electrical activity on the scalp.
