PSYCO258 Chapter Notes -Camillo Golgi, Golgi'S Method, Nerve Net
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: the study of the physiological basis of cognition involves understanding the nervous system and, the individual units that make up the nervous system. : the idea that individual cells called neurons transmit signals in the nervous system these cells are not continuous as proposed by the nerve net theory: cajal"s neuron conclusions. 3. there are neurons in the brain and neurons specialized to pick up info from the environment called receptors: :specialized neural structures that response to environment stimuli similar to brain neurons have specialized receptors to pick up info: anatomy of a neuron, cell body. :metabolic center of the neuron: mechanism that keep the cell alive contains nucleus, dendrites, multiple branches from cell body that receive info from other neurons, axons. :difference in charge b/w the inside of a nerve fibre and outside, when the fibre is at rest. Representation by neural firing: the principle of neural representation.
