PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture 1: PsychNotes91716-102416
1 Nov 2016
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Damage to parietal lobe causes impaired attentional processing to. Diffuse lesion of posterior left hemisphere (some parietal lobe, some temporal. Measures electrical activity from the skull (due to activity of neural tissue below) Can measure brain activity continuously (e. g. sleep) or in response to a specific event (called event-related potential) Present stimuli and look for change in erp waveforms from electrodes located across different regions of the skull. Dendrites: spidery filaments that receive information from other neurons. Soma: cell body contains nucleus carries out processes involved in respiration and metabolism of cell. Axon: filamente (often long) that transmits nerve impulses from soma to dendrites of other cells or muscles and organs( ends are called axon terminals) Axon terminals: ends of axon that connect with other neurons. Myelin sheath: fatty covering (made of up glial cells) that serves to insulate the axon and speed the transmission of nerve impulses. Motor neurons: output cells that activate muscles in the body.
