Hourly 1 Learning Objectives Introduction To Cognitive Neuroscience Reading: Gazzaniga et al. Chpt 1 Learning objectives: * Define the term Cognitive Neuroscience * Describe the contributions of the following scientists/physicians to our understanding of the brain: Rene Descartes‚ Thomas Willis‚ Paul Broca‚ Carl Wernicke‚ Gustav Fritsch & Eduard Hitzig‚ Korbinian Brodmann‚ Santiago Ramon y Cajal; Camillo Golgi. * Describe the contributions of the following scientists to our understanding
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In this activity you will take a tour of the human brain and explore the major brain regions to discover the functions of each region or area. Functional Specialization • In terms of brain function‚ what is functional specialization? Hearing a sound or moving our thumb is controlled by a cluster of neurons. This gives us the capability of the nervous system. A neural network is the cluster of neurons. • Why is the principle of complex communication important to understand? Each neural
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BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR Functional Specialization • In terms of brain function‚ what is functional specialization? Functional specialization is the function of the nervous system. Each of the neurons located within the nervous system are grouped into clusters‚ these clusters have a specific purpose in the body’s function. Such as movements of the limbs‚ emotions‚ memory and bodily functions. • Why is the principle of complex communication important to understand? The principle of complex
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Textbook Study Notes CHAPTER 1 – INTRO TO COG PSYCH Cognitive Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind The Mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception‚ attention‚ memory‚ emotions‚ language‚ thinking and reasoning. It is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Donder’s Pioneering Experiment He was interested in determining how long it takes a person to make a decision
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The purpose of this paper is to describe a disease process that is caused by a malfunction in a particular body system. I decided to focus on the neurological system and to do my research on cerebral palsy. The nervous system is a delicate body system made up of many parts and has many functions. The nervous system has three main functions- sensory‚ integration‚ as well as motor. There are two components or the nervous system (the central and peripheral nervous system) as well as two subdivisions
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The five major structures of the brain are myelencephalon‚ Metencephalon‚ mesencephalon‚ diencephalon and telencephalon. The myelencephalon carries signals from the brain to the entire parts of the human body and it is also uniquely shaped looking like a little net. The Metencephalon is made up of ascending and descending tracts just like the myelencephalon. It has two major divisions which are pons and the cerebellum. The mesencephalon has two divisions also and they are the tectum and the tegmentum
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Hi Jonnah‚ I know we haven’t talked since you transferred high schools‚ but I hope you are doing well! In 8th grade I remember you having a lot of trouble with your epilepsy. You wore sunglasses indoors because the light always triggered seizures and even when you did wear them‚ you had seizures at school. It was always scary to watch‚ but I can’t even imagine how scary it was for you to go through them. Back then‚ I knew nothing about epilepsy. All I knew is that it affected my friend‚ and I hated
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Manila Tytana Colleges Metropolitan Park‚ Diosdado Macapagal Blvd. Pasay City “Hemispheric Dominance” Investigatory Project By Mabute‚ Pinky Table of Contents List of Tables Page Chapter 1 The Problem – Its Background
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"How can the study of brain damage inform our understanding of the human brain? The study of brain injury is an imperative tool when trying to understand the in-depth workings of “the most complex object in the known universe”. We have been studying the brain for thousands of years. From Hippocrates in 468BC‚ describing epilepsy as a disturbance of the brain‚ to our modern day MRI and CT scans able to image the brain in great detail our knowledge is always growing. However the study of
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DEM 201 1.1- Dementia are the signs and symptoms caused as a result of specific diseases such as Alzheimer’s or a stroke that involve the damaging of brain cells; as the brain cells die the person with a dementia will lose their ability to do things they are used to doing as different parts of the brain are damaged. Dementia affects both older and younger people and the decline in the person will get worse as more brain cells are damaged or die. 1.2-The main areas of the brain that are affected
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