PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intelligence Quotient, Myelin, Autism Spectrum
8 Jan 2017
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Lecture 6: parents eager to encourage their children"s neurodevelopment, popularity of brain stimulation products, research suggests that they are not helpful, mozart effect (rauscher et al. , 1993) Researchers recruited some university students to hear mozart and then take iq test. Conclusion: students who heard mozart had higher iq however, the effect is not huge and only works for student: the policy makers grabbed on to this idea and made it a huge thing (misrepresentation) Still no evidence that playing mozart for baby will turn into a super baby: a lot of info about neurodevelopment is misused by general public, we don"t think brain stimulation products will make a genius baby. Transmit & receive messages/neural impulses (dendrites cell axon. Synaptogenesis: creating new synapses b/w neurons at huge rate, synaptic developments triple the weight of brain until age 2, very dependent on stimulation (if you deprive a baby stimulation, you deprive them of synaptogenesis) Nature: genotype coding for synaptic pruning and synaptogenesis.
