PSYC-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phantom Limb, Sensory Cortex, Axon Terminal
18 Mar 2016
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Left hemisphere is language for most people (control of right hand) Everything that is showed on the left, goes to the right side of the brain. If you have a prolonged stimulation of the visual stimulation, the information will shine on both eyes, Behaviour causing brain, the most plastic part of our brain correlates to the cortex. Capacity of the cortex to change its structure and function. Evidence for plasticity: general, environmental, and enrichment studies. Impoverished rats versus enriched rats , number of blood cells seem to buy higher, show responsibility to enriched environment, more stimulated vs less stimulated. Train right paw lever press left motor cortex shows growth. What kind of brain change would you expect in a rat. Yes, it is taken over by adjacent areas, the area does not go to waste, the brain is remapped to utilize other bodily movements of the rat.
