PSYC 311 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lingual Gyrus, Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Commissural Fiber

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 311
• Professor: Michalakis Petrides

Document Summary

Sends an electrical pulse from cell body to axon. When it"s excitability reaches a certain level and gets activated. Always sub energy but than get excited and integrate information from many neurons. Another dendrite would send another information after integrating information from it"s action potential (telephone game) Many parts of the brain have specialized information systems. Study/ attempt to try to understand relationship between different parts of the brain. Noticed changes in cognition when damaged to brain. Attempts to link them to parts of the brain were very primitive. Could preserve the brain and harden it and thin slice it into microtomes in order to study. Became possible when they could relate damage to specific parts of the brain and different cognitive processes. Damage to an area in the left hemisphere. Figured out that a patient had damage to a certain area of the brain. The patient could understand language but was unable to talk.