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... 1. How many hours of sleep to you need to get in order to be fully alert? 2. What is the name of your Biological Timing System and how does it change during the teenage years? 3. What analogy does the announcer use for a teen that is trying to function with not enough sleep? 4. What are three daily ...
... 1. How many hours of sleep to you need to get in order to be fully alert? 2. What is the name of your Biological Timing System and how does it change during the teenage years? 3. What analogy does the announcer use for a teen that is trying to function with not enough sleep? 4. What are three daily ...
The Nervous System
... • Long term memory is like remembering lots of phone numbers. • Long term memory can be a mixture of semantic memory (numbers, words, etc) and episodic memory (persons, events, etc). ...
... • Long term memory is like remembering lots of phone numbers. • Long term memory can be a mixture of semantic memory (numbers, words, etc) and episodic memory (persons, events, etc). ...
Science in Motion
... The basic lab should take about one class period. The lab could easily fill two periods if you allowed the students to follow up the basic lab by designing their own experiments using the same equipment. ...
... The basic lab should take about one class period. The lab could easily fill two periods if you allowed the students to follow up the basic lab by designing their own experiments using the same equipment. ...
ANIMAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENT
... Alzheimer’s disease Is a progressive and degenerative disease of the brain, which causes the loss of memory and thinking skills. Common in older people and affects both men and women. The causes of Alzheimer is not fully understood, scientists believe that the disease develops when ...
... Alzheimer’s disease Is a progressive and degenerative disease of the brain, which causes the loss of memory and thinking skills. Common in older people and affects both men and women. The causes of Alzheimer is not fully understood, scientists believe that the disease develops when ...
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... expressions across cultures. They found that this ability seemed to transcend culture. 2. One other study on blind and deaf children showed they made the same facial expressions as we all do. This shows the universality of emotional expression because it would have been impossible for them to have ...
... expressions across cultures. They found that this ability seemed to transcend culture. 2. One other study on blind and deaf children showed they made the same facial expressions as we all do. This shows the universality of emotional expression because it would have been impossible for them to have ...
Conditions Page 5
... affecting the brain, brain stem and spinal cord. More than one million people around the world are affected by MS. It is an unpredictable disease and varies in severity, from a mild illness in some to permanent disability in others. Symptoms typically begin between ages 20 and 40, and often include ...
... affecting the brain, brain stem and spinal cord. More than one million people around the world are affected by MS. It is an unpredictable disease and varies in severity, from a mild illness in some to permanent disability in others. Symptoms typically begin between ages 20 and 40, and often include ...
Phineas Gage Reading Guide Directions: After you read each
... Be sure to read each question carefully and answer appropriately in complete sentences. This will be your first test grade. Be sure to get this turned in on time! Let's start the semester off right! Chapter 1 "Horrible Accident in Vermont" (Pp. 1-22) 1. When did Phineas' lucky/unlucky accident happe ...
... Be sure to read each question carefully and answer appropriately in complete sentences. This will be your first test grade. Be sure to get this turned in on time! Let's start the semester off right! Chapter 1 "Horrible Accident in Vermont" (Pp. 1-22) 1. When did Phineas' lucky/unlucky accident happe ...
Chapter 2: The Brain and Behavior
... the corpus callosum is cut, a “split brain” results. Then visual information can be sent to just one hemisphere by flashing it in the right or left visual field as the person stares straight ahead. ...
... the corpus callosum is cut, a “split brain” results. Then visual information can be sent to just one hemisphere by flashing it in the right or left visual field as the person stares straight ahead. ...
Chapter 7 Body Systems
... Ability to speak and write words AND ability to understand spoken and written words ...
... Ability to speak and write words AND ability to understand spoken and written words ...
Nervous System
... Discov. Psych: Prg. 25: Cognitive Neuroscience: Phineas Gage Measuring brain’s activity Vision; retinal-topic mapping ...
... Discov. Psych: Prg. 25: Cognitive Neuroscience: Phineas Gage Measuring brain’s activity Vision; retinal-topic mapping ...
How the Brain Learns
... (Smilkstein, 2003) All learning is the growing of new dendrites by interconnecting what the reader is learning and what the reader already knows. The physiological functions of learning are the same for everyone. Differences in learning occur not physiologically, but based on what each reader alread ...
... (Smilkstein, 2003) All learning is the growing of new dendrites by interconnecting what the reader is learning and what the reader already knows. The physiological functions of learning are the same for everyone. Differences in learning occur not physiologically, but based on what each reader alread ...
Sensory Deprivation on Neuroplasticity
... groups of rats in the number of brain cells (neurons) but the enriched rats produced larger neurons. • The ratio of RNA to DNA (the two most important brain chemicals for cell growth) was greater for the enriched rats (higher level of chemical activity in the enriched rat’s brains). • The synapses o ...
... groups of rats in the number of brain cells (neurons) but the enriched rats produced larger neurons. • The ratio of RNA to DNA (the two most important brain chemicals for cell growth) was greater for the enriched rats (higher level of chemical activity in the enriched rat’s brains). • The synapses o ...
Topology - UCSB Physics
... topology of the wiring is more important than physical location. The exact wiring in the cortex is not known, because there are far too many connections (thousands per neuron) and the connections themselves are small, but may follow a convoluted path over long distance. Fortunately, it may be unnece ...
... topology of the wiring is more important than physical location. The exact wiring in the cortex is not known, because there are far too many connections (thousands per neuron) and the connections themselves are small, but may follow a convoluted path over long distance. Fortunately, it may be unnece ...
3 - smw15.org
... – He felt that bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and character traits. – Introduced as being scientific – Although, ill-fated theory was laughed at by scientific community of that day – it may have had some validity – Localization of brain functions somehow hit the mark ...
... – He felt that bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities and character traits. – Introduced as being scientific – Although, ill-fated theory was laughed at by scientific community of that day – it may have had some validity – Localization of brain functions somehow hit the mark ...
AP Ch. 2 vocab
... Ch. 2 Neuroscience and Behavior the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears includes the auditory areas, each of which receives auditory information primarily from the opposite ear the area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements the area at the front o ...
... Ch. 2 Neuroscience and Behavior the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears includes the auditory areas, each of which receives auditory information primarily from the opposite ear the area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements the area at the front o ...
Chapter 18
... PET scan on the left shows two areas of the brain (red and yellow) that become particularly active when volunteers read words on a video screen: the primary visual cortex and an additional part of the visual system, both in the back of the left hemisphere. Other brain regions become especially activ ...
... PET scan on the left shows two areas of the brain (red and yellow) that become particularly active when volunteers read words on a video screen: the primary visual cortex and an additional part of the visual system, both in the back of the left hemisphere. Other brain regions become especially activ ...
The Nervous System
... • The nervous system is essentially a biological information highway, and is responsible for controlling all the biological processes and movement in the body, and can also receive information and interpret it via electrical signals which are used in this nervous system • It consists of the Central ...
... • The nervous system is essentially a biological information highway, and is responsible for controlling all the biological processes and movement in the body, and can also receive information and interpret it via electrical signals which are used in this nervous system • It consists of the Central ...
vocab - sociallyconsciousbird.com
... the visual areas, which receive visual information from the opposite visual field temporal lobes – the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears; includes the auditory areas, each of which receives auditory information primarily from the opposite ear motor cortex – an area at the r ...
... the visual areas, which receive visual information from the opposite visual field temporal lobes – the portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughly above the ears; includes the auditory areas, each of which receives auditory information primarily from the opposite ear motor cortex – an area at the r ...
The Nervous System
... potential to be produced is a threshold. Threshold: Not all stimuli cause an impulse. A stimulus below the threshold has no effect on the neuron. Some people have higher thresholds for pain, heat or other stimuli. This means they can tolerate a stronger stimulus before their nervous system react ...
... potential to be produced is a threshold. Threshold: Not all stimuli cause an impulse. A stimulus below the threshold has no effect on the neuron. Some people have higher thresholds for pain, heat or other stimuli. This means they can tolerate a stronger stimulus before their nervous system react ...
The Brain
... impairment of intelligence, motivation, and/or attention. Vision is almost always intact and the mind is clear. Some affected individuals do not have the ability to recognize familiar objects. They can see objects, but are unable to identify them by sight. However, objects may be identified by touch ...
... impairment of intelligence, motivation, and/or attention. Vision is almost always intact and the mind is clear. Some affected individuals do not have the ability to recognize familiar objects. They can see objects, but are unable to identify them by sight. However, objects may be identified by touch ...
MRINeuroanatomy
... – Poor time resolution since we are looking at signal from blood, not directly from neurons – Physiological connection between neural activity and hemodynamic signal measured by MRI is complex and poorly understood ...
... – Poor time resolution since we are looking at signal from blood, not directly from neurons – Physiological connection between neural activity and hemodynamic signal measured by MRI is complex and poorly understood ...
Class
... a. momentarily becomes less negative, or even positive b. suddenly becomes even more positive than it was during the resting state c. momentarily changes from positive to negative d. suddenly becomes even more negative than it was during the resting state ...
... a. momentarily becomes less negative, or even positive b. suddenly becomes even more positive than it was during the resting state c. momentarily changes from positive to negative d. suddenly becomes even more negative than it was during the resting state ...
the brain and spinal cord Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
... an area of the left frontal lobe that directs the muscle movements involved in speech Wernicke’s Area an area of the left temporal lobe involved in language comprehension and expression ...
... an area of the left frontal lobe that directs the muscle movements involved in speech Wernicke’s Area an area of the left temporal lobe involved in language comprehension and expression ...