PSYC 001 Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Neurons are the basic unit of the central nervous system: The ability to study brain function has improved dramatically: phrenology in a phrenological map, each region of the skull is associated with a feature. Splitting the brain splits the mind: split brain a condition that occurs when the corpus callosum is surgically cut and the two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other. Interpreter the left hemisphere"s propensity to construct a world that makes sense is called the interpreter the left hemisphere is interpreting what the right hemisphere has done with only the information available to it. The brain rewired itself throughout life: plasticity a property of the brain that allows it to change as a result of experience or injury, neurogenesis the production of new neurons. The brain can recover from injury reorganizes and repairs after injury.
