Brain and Behavior Flashcards
What are the three major parts of the brain?
Cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem
What is prosopagnosia?
Inability to recognize people’s faces, following brain damage, despite mental and cognitive level.
What is Capgras syndrome?
Ability to recognize ones face, but believe they are an imposter
What did the Ellis and Lewis study find?
It compared normal patients to Capgras patients and showed the massive difference in recognizing and trusting faces
What is the double dissociation and what does it prove?
It shows that different but similar tasks done by people with brain damage can be impaired, but others not impaired. It proves the independent mechanisms in the brain.
What are mirror neurons in monkeys?
A monkey is able to repeat an action a human did after watching him do it
What are the three roles of mirror neurons?
Observation, Action understanding, Imitation
What did the tea cup experiment prove?
In humans, mirror neurons not only were able to imitate an action, but understand the motive behind the action.
What did Rizzolatti study and what did he state?
Mirror neurons in humans. Stated that the bigger part of the neuron does not code single moves, but motor acts.
How are mirror neurons stimulated?
The stimulus comes from outside the self. Suggests mirror neurons work in visual, motor, auditory, olfactory part of brain
What did V.S Ramachandran hypothesize?
Mirror neurons create the basis of human self-awareness and they evolved with our brain processes to create the modern human.
What does EMG measure in sleep?
Muscle tone
What does EEG measure in sleep?
Summative brain wave activity- Awake is beta results, asleep is alpha results
What are the three immobile states?
Vegative, coma, minimally conscious, also there is locked in syndrome
