PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Action Potential, Prenatal Development, Myelin

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Dr. Rebecca Jubis

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Lecture 10 - the biology of mind (mod 4-6) Biological perspective: to understand behaviour we must examine the brain and nervous system. For every behaviour, there is a corresponding physical event that is taking place in the brain. Doctor performed surgery on the brain to remove parts of the brain that cause epilepsy. Removed parts of the brain that were not vital to the everyday function of the brain. Brain mapping: used a mild electrical current through an electrode to map out parts of the brain. The stimulation would result in patients experiencing different things. Doctor avoided important areas of the brain. The most recently evolved area of the brain (in humans, not lower animals) The brain has left and right hemispheres. Corpus callosum: connects both halves of the brain. Each half of the brain has certain functions: l. h - dominant hemisphere (language):