PSY260: - L3

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1. The brain and spinal cord together make up the ()¹
2. Sensory receptors in your fingers and toes are part of your ().²
3. The temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and frontal lobe are all subdivisions of the ().³
4. The () looks like a smaller brain hiding underneath the cerebral cortex and helps coordinate sensation and movement.⁴
5. () collect neurotransmitters released from a presynaptic neuron.⁵
6. Varieties of cells such as astrocytes and oligodendrocytes that are found throughout the brain are collectively called ()⁶
7. A major technique currently used to collect structural images of human brains is ().⁷
8. The fact that by nature babies placed underwater do not inhale water is an example of a ()⁸
9. Neurons in the () play an important role in the generation and control of motor responses in humans.⁹
10. The prototypical connections between neurons are between () and ().¹⁰

Lecture §

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• Summary
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• Structural Plasticity in Nervous System
• Brain
  • 4 Major Lobes
  • Brainstem, cerebellum
  • Thalamus
  • subcortical regions: basal ganglia, hippocampus, amygdala
  • White matter, corpus callosum
• Reflex
• How Experience Changes Brain Structure
  • William James’ Network Theory
  • Plasticity
  • Hebbian Learning
    • Donald Hebb
    • Synaptic connections are determined competitively
    • This suggests a kind of experience-based “natural selection” for the most useful synaptic connections

Footnotes §

1. Central Nervous system ↩

2. Peripheral Nervous system ↩

3. Cerebral cortex ↩

4. Cerebellum ↩

5. postsynaptic neuron ↩

6. Glia ↩

7. MRI ↩

8. Reflex ↩

9. MI/primary motor cortex/cerebellum/basal ganglia ↩

10. dendrites, axons ↩