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| body movements, working memory, decision making |
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| cerebellum, medulla, pons, reticular formation |
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| bridge of fibers passing info between 2 cerebral hemispheres |
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| fine muscle movement, balance |
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| limbic system, involved in emotion and aggression |
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| integrates sensory processes. reticular formaiton |
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| limbic system involved in learning and memory |
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| regulates basic biological needs: hunger, thirst, temperature control |
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| largely unconscious functions such as breathing and circulation |
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| conserves bodily resources ("save and store") |
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| somatosensory processing, spacial aspects of visual processing |
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| involved in sleep and arousal |
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| contributes to reflexes, breathing, pain perception; also sleep and arousal |
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| mobilizes bodily resources ("fight or flight") |
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| auditory processing, incl. language and comprehension |
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| relay center for cortex (brain); handles incoming and outgoing signals |
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| axons that carry info inward |
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| axons that carry info outward |
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| peripheral nervous system |
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| nerves that lie outside of the brain and spinal cord |
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| nerves that connect to voluntary skeletal muscles/sensory receptors |
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| nerves that connect the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles, glands |
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| (center of head) integrating sensory processes, reticular formation |
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| thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, cerebrum |
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| controls basic emotions and drives |
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| glands that secrete hormones |
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| gradual decline in sensitivity to prolonged stimulation |
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| focuses light rays falling on retina |
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| lining of inside of eye; absorbs light, processes images, sends to brain |
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| hold where optic nerve fibers exit eye. "blind spot" |
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| night & peripheral vision |
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| contains only cones; visual acuity is greatest |
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| at rest, neuron has a stable, negative charge |
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| when stimulated, electrical charge shifts and sends voltage spike along axon |
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| 1-2 millisecond pause where neuron can't fire |
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| detect specific features -> recognize stimulus |
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| hypothesis -> examine features -> recognize stimulus |
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retinal disparity - closer objects = greater disparity between L/R views
convergence - eyes cross as images get closer |
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| motion parallax, pictorial depth clues (linear perspective, texture gradient, interposition, relative size, height in plane) |
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| monocular. closer items move across retina faster |
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| monocular. closer objects overlap more distant ones |
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| parallel lines converge in distance |
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| low voltage, high-frequency beta waves |
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| alpha waves prominent (higher amplitude, frequency) |
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| theta waves - looks like awake |
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| stage 3/4 / slow wave / deep sleep |
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| delta waves = high amplitude, low frequency |
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| low voltage, high-frequency beta (like awake) |
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| problem-solving, creativity unconstrained by logic |
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| activation synthesis model |
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| dreams = side effects of neural activity |
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