PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fusiform Gyrus, Synaptic Pruning, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Shaylene Nancekivell

Document Summary

Habituation, motor, and perception sections- needed to understand the rest of infant and toddler lectures. Hearing/intermodal stuff will be touched on again during language development. Lecture will focus on the physical brain and some important research on perception (not hearing/language based. Brain growth centered around neurons developing elaborate communication system. Frontal lobe, temporal lobe (auditory) parietal lobe (sensory, spatial) occipital. If (cid:455)ou take out a portio(cid:374) of a(cid:374) i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t"s (cid:271)rai(cid:374), the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) (cid:449)ill re-specialize, recruit different part of the brain to help and do other things. Imitation (basic, biological, motor imitation: copying the behavior of another person, reese"s (cid:373)o(cid:374)ke(cid:455)s. Mo(cid:374)ke(cid:455)"s (cid:449)at(cid:272)hed other (cid:373)o(cid:374)ke(cid:455)s doi(cid:374)g a task. I(cid:374) the 60"s the(cid:455) thought this e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)(cid:272)ra(cid:449)li(cid:374)g(cid:895) taught (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies to fear heights, they were learning sense of risk. Actually tests our visual systems and our depth perception, ability to make judgements on what we are physically capable of (no emotion involved) 4 separate learning curves with crawling, resets at.