psgy1003 - biological

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Decks in this class (18)

neuroanatomy 1
the nervous system, the brain, planes, grey and white matter, protection of the nervous system, cerebral cortex
57  cards
neuroanatomy 2 - subcortical structures
the brain (encephalon), telencephalon, diencephalon, mescencephalon (midbrain), rhombencephalon
39  cards
transmission within neurons
the nervous system, neurons, supporting cells - glia, transmission within a neuron
53  cards
transmission between neurons
transmission between neurons, neural integration, drugs and neurotransmitters
32  cards
how to study the brain
neurological diseases and cases, methods to study the brain and its role in behaviour/cognition, patient HM, experimentally induced lesions and other brain manipulations, selective place deficits after hippocampal lesions in rats, neuroanatomical study of brain connectivity, polymodal sensory input to the hippocampus, electrophysiology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), modelling the brain (spatial learning and navigation)
34  cards
primary visual pathway
What does visual information stim...,
What is the fovea 2,
What is the visual pathway 3
30  cards
occipital and temporal lobe - visual perception and memory
What does it mean that processing...,
What is functional differentiation 2,
What are simple features 3
28  cards
frontal and parietal lobes
gyri, sulci and fissures, parietal lobe - boundaries and major anatomical subdivisions, parietal lobe - major functional subdivisions, frontal lobe - anatomy and main subdivisions, neuropsychology of the prefrontal cortex
54  cards
emotion and the brain
basic emotions, basic emotions and the brain, fear - conditioning and extinction
27  cards
genetic methods
introduction, Mendelian inheritance, from DNA to genes, beyond Mendel, genetic research methods, genetic engineering
42  cards
ethics, biological and psychology
animals in biological research, humans in biological research, ethics, learning from the past
18  cards
evolution
core concepts of evolution, evolution shaping psychological mechanisms
44  cards
schizophrenia and affective disorders
schizophrenia, affective disorders
41  cards
cognitive neuropsychology (and language)
cognitive neuropsychology, mapping the brain, neuropsychology and language
22  cards
memory and perception
neuropsychology and memory, neuropsychology and visual perception
37  cards
sleep
measurements and stages of sleep, theories of sleep, brain areas involved in sleep, sleep disorders
37  cards
eating and appetite
eating and digestion, theories of hunger, eating factors, physiological research - hypothalamus, physiological research - stomach, physiological research - peptides
31  cards
learning
distribution of learning, learning, habituation, classical conditioning, learning to like the right-hand side of space and how to detect a lie, features of classical conditioning, learning to control the world - instrumental conditioning, what is learned during learning
39  cards

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