PSYC1110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cerebral Cortex, Cranial Nerves, Autonomic Nervous System
28 Sep 2016
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Stuff in both in lecture and reading = must know inside out. Get the big points of readings that we didn"t cover. Stuff in reading that probably go deeper than lecture, it is: encephalonization quotient. Relative size of brain compare to body size, but also taking into how much brain you need for a certain body size. 9, limbic system bridge several structures from more than one division memory, emotion, sensory information . 13, white matter mostly myelin like highways that send information out grey matter - mostly cell body in the spinal cord, data is important, white matter is outside. Darwin, descartes, the person who did the study (the details of that experiments: convolutions and encephalonization are separate measures. Likely there because tel expanded much more, cerebral cortex is getting really massive. Correlates the best: autonomic nervous system sympathetic (flight/fight); parasympathetic(digestion) somatic system spinal nerves skeletal muscle voluntary control of body movements.
