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... (feedback) Extrastriate visual cortical areas V3 – V5. More complex representation of visual stimulus with feedback from other cortical areas (eg. attention). ...
... (feedback) Extrastriate visual cortical areas V3 – V5. More complex representation of visual stimulus with feedback from other cortical areas (eg. attention). ...
Sensory Physiology
... – Did you activate neurons with low as well as high threshold for activation? ...
... – Did you activate neurons with low as well as high threshold for activation? ...
Chapter 13
... Learning refers to the processes by which experiences change our nervous system and hence our behavior We refer to these changes as memories Experiences are not “stored”, rather they change the way we perform, perceive, think, and plan by physically changing the structure of the nervous system We mu ...
... Learning refers to the processes by which experiences change our nervous system and hence our behavior We refer to these changes as memories Experiences are not “stored”, rather they change the way we perform, perceive, think, and plan by physically changing the structure of the nervous system We mu ...
Neurophysiology
... Cerebral Dominance/Laterality • Language Processing in the left hemisphere. (Remember the right ear has the strongest connections to the left hemisphere) • Most people show a right-ear advantage in processing linguistic stimuli ...
... Cerebral Dominance/Laterality • Language Processing in the left hemisphere. (Remember the right ear has the strongest connections to the left hemisphere) • Most people show a right-ear advantage in processing linguistic stimuli ...
Introduction to Sensation and Perception
... • Write down the word I show your side of the classroom do not share it with the other side. ...
... • Write down the word I show your side of the classroom do not share it with the other side. ...
The vocabulary of nerve cells
... – The range of intensity of the stimulus must thus be coded into the possible range of frequencies of a neuron. The minimum detectable change in frequency depends on the constancy of firing of the signaling neuron (most neurons fire constantly). The absolute refractory period governs the maximum fre ...
... – The range of intensity of the stimulus must thus be coded into the possible range of frequencies of a neuron. The minimum detectable change in frequency depends on the constancy of firing of the signaling neuron (most neurons fire constantly). The absolute refractory period governs the maximum fre ...
Neuroscience 5a – Touch and Proprioception
... ganglion cells. They are all mechanoreceptors and they fire action potentials when either nerve endings or connective tissue structures on the nerve endings become deformed. As the endings become more and more deformed, depolarisation occurs until the threshold level is reached. At this point the ac ...
... ganglion cells. They are all mechanoreceptors and they fire action potentials when either nerve endings or connective tissue structures on the nerve endings become deformed. As the endings become more and more deformed, depolarisation occurs until the threshold level is reached. At this point the ac ...
3. Explain the basic thrust of signal-detection theory. 5. Discuss the
... 1.90 to 120 decibels (dB). __ (a) What is the frequency range of human hearing? ...
... 1.90 to 120 decibels (dB). __ (a) What is the frequency range of human hearing? ...
Think About the Dendrites We`ve Been Talking About
... Scientific Theories Influenced by the Available Research Tools ...
... Scientific Theories Influenced by the Available Research Tools ...
PY460: Physiological Psychology
... usually treated with hearing aids caused by genetics, disease, ototoxic drugs, etc. ...
... usually treated with hearing aids caused by genetics, disease, ototoxic drugs, etc. ...
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... Neurogenic and myopathic diseases have different effects on the motor unit. A. A motor unit potential is recorded by inserting a needle electrode into the muscle. The muscle fibers innervated by a single motor neuron are not usually adjacent to one another, yet the highly effective transmission at t ...
... Neurogenic and myopathic diseases have different effects on the motor unit. A. A motor unit potential is recorded by inserting a needle electrode into the muscle. The muscle fibers innervated by a single motor neuron are not usually adjacent to one another, yet the highly effective transmission at t ...
THE SPINAL CORD AND SPINAL REFLEXES
... A: Receptive fields. Size and locations of the receptive fields of 15 sensory units, determined by recording from the median nerve. All of these sensory units were rapidly adapting and were most likely conducting from Meisner-corpuscles. Within each receptive fields there are many Meissner corpuscle ...
... A: Receptive fields. Size and locations of the receptive fields of 15 sensory units, determined by recording from the median nerve. All of these sensory units were rapidly adapting and were most likely conducting from Meisner-corpuscles. Within each receptive fields there are many Meissner corpuscle ...
Attending to Contrast
... presented in the receptive field of the neuron under study (Moran and Desimone, 1985). He and his colleagues trained animals to perform a simple visual discrimination task: animals indicated whether a second stimulus was the same color or orientation as a previously presented stimulus. They found th ...
... presented in the receptive field of the neuron under study (Moran and Desimone, 1985). He and his colleagues trained animals to perform a simple visual discrimination task: animals indicated whether a second stimulus was the same color or orientation as a previously presented stimulus. They found th ...
Behavioral
... with due consideration of their relevance to human or animal health, the advancement of knowledge, or the good of society. • The animals selected for a procedure should be of an appropriate species and quality and the minimum number required to obtain valid results. [Alternative] methods…should be c ...
... with due consideration of their relevance to human or animal health, the advancement of knowledge, or the good of society. • The animals selected for a procedure should be of an appropriate species and quality and the minimum number required to obtain valid results. [Alternative] methods…should be c ...
Chap3a
... each other but in Instrumental conditioning, a stimulus and a response are associated. In Classical conditioning, the response is a reflex or involuntary action but in Instrumental conditioning, the response is a voluntary, freely emitted behavior. ...
... each other but in Instrumental conditioning, a stimulus and a response are associated. In Classical conditioning, the response is a reflex or involuntary action but in Instrumental conditioning, the response is a voluntary, freely emitted behavior. ...
Operant Conditioning
... boxes, rats that had been deprived of food were presented with a lever that, when pushed, would drop a pellet of food into the cage. Of course, the rat wouldn't know this, and so the first time it hit the lever, it was a purely accidental, the result of what Skinner called random trial and error beh ...
... boxes, rats that had been deprived of food were presented with a lever that, when pushed, would drop a pellet of food into the cage. Of course, the rat wouldn't know this, and so the first time it hit the lever, it was a purely accidental, the result of what Skinner called random trial and error beh ...
CLASS #1: 9 Jan 2001
... A. Segmentation: There are 31 segments that are associated with each of the 31 pairs of spinal nerves (named the same way; e.g., T12 segment receives input from/ sends output through T12 spinal nerves. B. Organization: “Grey matter” surrounded by “white matter.” Through the middle runs a “central ca ...
... A. Segmentation: There are 31 segments that are associated with each of the 31 pairs of spinal nerves (named the same way; e.g., T12 segment receives input from/ sends output through T12 spinal nerves. B. Organization: “Grey matter” surrounded by “white matter.” Through the middle runs a “central ca ...
Superior Frontal Gyrus Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus Superior
... night and suddenly hearing a strange sound. In this situation, there are two important tasks that our auditory system must do. It has to identify the sound (a cat meowing or the footsteps of a possible mugger) and it has to tell us where the sound comes from. We understand very little about how the ...
... night and suddenly hearing a strange sound. In this situation, there are two important tasks that our auditory system must do. It has to identify the sound (a cat meowing or the footsteps of a possible mugger) and it has to tell us where the sound comes from. We understand very little about how the ...
16. Taste, smell
... proximity with medial lemniscal fibers carrying somatosensory signals from tongue to lateral post central gyrus); third order fibers from thalamus terminate in cortex of anterior insular lobe (ppts. 5 & 6) • smell: olfactory sense informs of presence of other animals even recognition of individuals ...
... proximity with medial lemniscal fibers carrying somatosensory signals from tongue to lateral post central gyrus); third order fibers from thalamus terminate in cortex of anterior insular lobe (ppts. 5 & 6) • smell: olfactory sense informs of presence of other animals even recognition of individuals ...