PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Schwann Cell, Retina, Neuroglia

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Document Summary

Happens to 75% of ppl who lose part of their body. If your face takes over what your hand used to be, when sensations to your face, it will feel as if its happening to your missing hand. Function of damaged areas can be reassigned to other areas. Unused areas can be reassigned to other functions. Brain can change its functional and structural organization. Functional: function of and activity in brain regions. Taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus than controls (normal people) Amount of time as a taxi driver correlates w hippocampus volume. But correlation does not equal causation, what if people with high spatial recognition choose to be taxi drivers. Increased hippocampal volume after three months of studying for an exam. Brain gets more efficient over time (doesn"t need as much connections) Info processing tasks and keeps cell alive. Carries info from other neurons, muscles or glands. Slowing transmission info from one neuron to another.