Psychology 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal, Purkinje Cell, Neuron Doctrine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Jody Culham

Document Summary

Emphasizes basic neural mechanisms and processes (behaviours such as sleep, emotions, sensation, motor control) These techniques enabled us to non-invasively (don"t cut anybody up) study the brain. Emphasizes higher cognitive functions (e. g. attention, memory, language, consciousness) Emphasizes human function: enabled by recent technologies. Neuroscience is booming: since 1950s, the scientific outputs (neuroscience publications) have been increasing linearly, neuroscience phds: increasing over the time period but the most dramatic increase compared to other fields. Large rise in the 1980s and in 2005 (fmri took off, university programs increasing: neuroscience has the steepest increase in year of phd there are more graduate programs for neuroscience and more people enrolled in these programs. Western is a great place for neuroscience. Axons can be 30 feet in a giraffe. Longest axons from the nervous system run from the brain to the tips of the toes. Brain myths and facts: you only use 10% of your brain myth.