PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nerve Net, Occipital Lobe, Distributed Computing
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Cognitive neuroscience- the study of the physiological basis of cognition. Golgi showed the structure of the neuron and then cajal changed the revolution and showed that the cells were individual units called neurons and figure out that individual cells transmit signals in the nervous system. Synapse- small gap between the axon one neuron and the dendrite anther. Neurons are connected to each other to form neural circuits. Neurons that pick up information from the environment are receptors and have a cell body and axon and special receptors that pick up information from the environment. Adrian- recorde the action potentials and showed that action potential travles all the way without changing its size. A neurotransmitter is released from one end of the axon to the dendrite through the synaptic gap. The cerebral cortex layer of tissue that covers the brain. Prosopagnosia- inability to recognize faces as a result of damage to the areas in the temporal lobe.
