PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Premotor Cortex, White Matter, Limbic System
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Synesthesia: a cross-sensory experience in which, for example a visual image has a taste. It tends to run in families, it may help us to understand how heredity affects the way we experience the world. One portion of the brain may have adopted the role of another portion: cross- wiring. Genetics: how physical characteristics are passed on to offspring through inheritance. Also refers to the process of turning genes on and off ; this reveals that the environment affects our genes- how they are expressed and how they influence our thoughts, feelings and behavior. The human genome project is the attempt to map the entire structure of human genetic material. First step: map out the entire structure of dna to identify the order of molecules that make up each of the thousands of genes on each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Goal: understand how genes and their variations interact to affect health and illness.
