PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Myelin, Radioactive Tracer, Motor Neuron
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Plato: placed the mind in the head. Placed it in the heart: phrenology, study bumps on the head. Reveal persons mental abilities and character traits. Would give skull readings: failed but focused attention on localization of function. Biological perspective: concerned with the links between biology and behaviour, biology of the mind has lead to. Among them nerve cells conduct electricity and talk to one another by sending chemical messages across tiny gap separating them. Specific brain systems serve specific function (different from galls) We integrate information processed in these different brain systems to construct our experiences of sights and sounds, meanings and memories, pain and passion. Our adaptive brain is wired by our experience: cells organize to form body organs, which form larger bodily systems, thus biopsychosocial systems. Brain samples of humans and monkeys are same. Able to study neural systems of squids and slugs: all operate similarly.