Reading- 1 Flashcards
Define cognition
mental activity, the interpretation of information
Angelo Mosso’s experiment was used to measure…
pulsations of the brain at the site of skull. Noticed that pulsations of the brain increased locally during mental activities.
in the 1600s who was the first to introduce the idea that brain damage could influence behaviour
Thomas Willis
what is meant by associationism?
that nay repsonse followed by a reward would be maintained- learn through associations
where do neurons communicate?
the synapse
electrical gradient at a synapse is due to…
the ions
ion channels can either be…
passive or gated
where can synapses be found?
dendrites, axon terminals and also the neuronal cell body.
explain the process of chemical transmission:
NT is released and binds to postsynapse creating an excitatory or inhibitory synapse
electrical synapse
mass current via channels that connect cytoplasm cells to each other
what 3 brain areas are in the limbic system
hippocampus, hypothalamus and thalamus.
basial ganglia is found…
in the sensory and motor areas
cerebral cortex is…
a sheet of layered neurons covering cerebral hemispheres
define the term gyri
protruding areas of the cortex
define the term sulci ( fissures)
infolded regions- major sulci is split into four regions
