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27 Cards in this Set
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Myelin Sheath |
Protects axon and prevents AP dissipating |
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Node of Ranvier |
Contains ion channels that regenerate AP |
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Resting membrane potential |
-40 to -90mV |
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Primary motor cortex |
Involved in movement execution, somatotopic structure |
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Optic chiasm |
Where the optic nerves cross |
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“Contralateral” |
Originating in corresponding parts on the opposite side |
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Mirror neurons are located in the..? |
Frontal and parietal areas |
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Two monkey studies on neuroplasticity |
Amputation and Training |
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Adaptation |
Neuron firing decreases |
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Body ownership - bottom-up |
Body representation due to INTEGRATION of MULTIMODAL SENSORY INFO |
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Body ownership - top-down |
We have a RICH INTERNAL MODEL of the body’s structure |
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Bottom-up Experiment |
Ramachandran: long arm and part of table can be integrated i to body image |
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Bottom-up Experiment |
Ramachandran: long arm and part of table can be integrated i to body image |
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Top-down experiment |
RHI in anatomically impossible positions has no effect |
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Studying overt attention |
Measure gaze patterns |
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Studying overt attention |
Measure gaze patterns |
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Studying covert attention |
Letter arrays (Hermann von Helmholtz) |
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Which area is key for HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT? |
Right parietal area |
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Sprague Effect |
Can compensate for hemispatial neglect from parietal lesion by SUPERIOR COLLICULUS LESION on OTHER SIDE |
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Endogenous attention |
Regions in intraparietal and superior frontal cortices |
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Endogenous attention |
Regions in intraparietal and superior frontal cortices |
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Exogenous attention |
Regions near temporal-parietal junction and ventral frontal cortex |
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Corbetta and Schulman |
Frontal-parietal attention network |
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Neurophysiology of priming |
Reduction of cortical activity |
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Event memory in mammals |
Medial-temporal structures in HIPPOCAMPUS |
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Nondeclarative memory |
Basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex |
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Memory action cycle |
POSTERIOR structures for SENSORY functions ANTERIOR structure for MOTOR functions |
