PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Thiamine, Cerebral Cortex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Elena Choleris

Document Summary

Introduction: approximately 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion neural connections and a nearly infinite possible, neuroscience is comprised of several related disciplines, this course will deal mainly with. The case of jimmie g: very intelligent and friendly. The brain is highly adaptive, rewiring itself in response to experiences and the individual"s genes: the discovery of neuroplasticity, made in the early 1990"s, is arguably one of the most influential discoveries of modern neuroscience. What is the relationship between biopsychology and the other disciplines of neuroscience: biopsychologists mix neuroscience and behavioural science to perform bio-behavioural research. They have a behavioural orientation and knowledge of behavioural research methods. Interdisciplinary field of research which incorporates many aspects of neuroscience and other scientific disciplines with behavioural research. Experiments and non-experiments: experiments are used to study causation, experiments are able to explain the cause of phenomena by ruling out the influence of potential confounding variables.