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Brain and Mind
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The Complex Brain
• The mammalian brain is highly complex, containing many specialized regions that carry out specific functions.
• Generally, the brain is divided into hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain.
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Hindbrain• Medulla: controls
autonomic fuctions.
• Pons: controls sleep stages.
• Cerebellum: coordinates movement, stores some motor memory.
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Midbrain
• Reticular formation: the “traffic cops” of the brain.
• Filters sensory input, which allows us to concentrate.
• Filtering can be affected by higher thoughts.
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Try this:• Stop and think: What have you
been paying attention to for the last ten minutes?
• Pay attention to the feel of your shirt on your arms. Had you been noticing it during the last ten minutes? That’s the reticular formation in action.
• What else have you not been paying attention to?
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Forebrain• Thalamus: relay
station channeling sensory information.
• Limbic system: basic emotions, drives, and behaviors.
• Cortex: higher thought
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Limbic system
• Hypothalamus: master controller of the endocrine system.
• Amygdala: sensations of pleasure or fear, recognition of fear in others.
• Hippocampus: formation of memories.
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Cortex• Various areas
control sensory processing, motor control, thought, memory.
• Wiring is plastic: people blind from birth, for example, use parts of the visual cortex to process auditory signals.
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Left brain, right brain?• While there is some specialization to each
hemisphere, the idea has been oversimplified.
• The left brain controls the right half of the body; the right brain controls the left half of the body.
• However, “right brain” or “left brain” functions such as math, language, etc. produce activity on both sides of the brain, and processing of these may be different in different people (males vs. females, novices vs. experts, etc.).
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Brain “maps”?
While hemispheric research shows some specialization between hemispheres, most “brain maps” like this are nonsense.
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Memory
• How humans form memories is poorly understood.
• “Working memory” appears to be distinct from long-term memory. There may be short-term memory as well, things remembered for a few days. Is this because the memory disappears, or because it cannot be retrieved?
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Models of Memory
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Models of Memory
Craik & Lockhart, 1972
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What is mind?• Many traditions, including psychology,
separate “brain” from “mind.”
• What we perceive as “mind” (thought, will, self-perception) does produce evidence of brain activity in brain scans.
• That “brain” influences “mind” is well-established; but some evidence shows “mind” can influence “brain”; as cognitive therapy for depression can physically change the brain.
• Neurology is a very young science, and there is still much to learn about the brain-mind connection.
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The part of the brain that makes sense of the information in your
textbook is:
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1. Cerebrum2. Cerebellum3. Brain stem
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The specific part of your cerebrum that makes sense of your textbook is:
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1. Frontal lobes2. Temporal lobes3. Occipital lobes4. Parietal lobes
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After you learn to type, you no longer have to think about it. What part of your
brain is responsible fo rthis?
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1. Cerebrum2. Cerebellum3. Brain stem
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The brain receives signals from the outside via:
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1. Motor neurons2. Sensory neurons3. Both motor and
sensory neurons
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Senses
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Sensory receptors
• Receptors are found in the sense organs. They receive stimuli from the environment and transmit stimuli to neurons.
• Primary humans senses: photoreception, chemoreception, mechanoreception, thermoreception.
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Thermoreception• Free nerve
endings in the skin sense changes in temperature (differences rather than absolutes).
• These are directly transmitted through the PNS.
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Mechanoreception• Hearing is a form of
mechanoreception.
• Ears gather sound waves from the environment.
• The inner ear bones amplify sounds.
• Sounds are transmitted to the cochlea.
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Sound transmission
• Within the cochlea, hair cells on the basilar membrane vibrate to certain frequencies, and send signals down the auditory nerve.
• Loud sounds can damage these sensitive hairs permanently.
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Listening to loud music through earphones is, over time, likely
to:
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strengthening muscles in the ears.
2. Cause only temporary numbness of hearing.
3. Permanently damage hair cells in the ear, causing hearing loss.
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Photoreception• Sight is
photoreception.
• Light enters the eye through the cornea and pupil.
• Light is focused by the lens.
• Light strikes the retina, and stimulates receptors.
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Photoreceptors• Light breaks pigments
in the receptor cells, releasing energy that stimulates neurons connecting to the optic nerve.
• Rod cells detect amount of light, cone cells distinguish colors. Cone cells require more intense light than rod cells.
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The reason that people need glasses or contacts later in life
is:
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2. The lens gradually stiffens with time.
3. Lots of reading or time at the computer makes the eyes weak.
4. The eyeball changes shape over time.
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Colors are hard to see in low light, and everything looks gray,
because:
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potentials are stimulated in low light.
2. Cone cells require more light than rod cells to function.
3. There isn’t enough light to reflect color back at the eye.
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Chemoreception• Taste is one form
of chemoreception.
• Taste buds detect certain ions dissolved in saliva.
• Tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, “umami.”
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Chemoreception• Smell is another
form of chemoreception.
• Receptors in the olfactory patch in the human nose can distinguish between about 1000 different chemicals in the air.
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“Flavor”
• What we sense as the “flavor” of food is not taste alone. Smell and taste together create the sensation of “flavor.”
• This is why things don’t “taste” good when we have a cold; we lose the sense of “flavor.”
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Chemoreception• The sense of pain is
another form of chemoreception.
• Injured tissues release chemicals as a response. These chemicals stimulate free nerve endings in the skin and the stimulation is perceived as pain.
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A person walks by wearing heavy perfume. You can’t miss the smell. But
you also detect a bitter taste. Why?
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triggers cross-sensory perceptions.
2. The airborne chemicals are detected by both your nose and your tongue.
3. The smell triggers memories of bitter-tasting substances.
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Strange perceptions
A
Which one of these, if any, is the right color for this letter?
AA
A
A
AA
A
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Strange perceptionsWhich of these, if any, is the right color for this shape?
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Synesthesia
• Synesthesia can be described as “cross-sensory perceptions.”
• Synesthetes experience more than one sensory perception for a single sensory reception, such as experiencing flashes of particular colors or textures when hearing certain sounds.
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Synesthesia• The cause of synesthesia is unknown. Some
speculate that all infants are synesthetic, and neural “pruning” during early years separates the senses. In some individuals, the pruning may not be complete. The evidence on this is mixed.
• The experiences are unique to each individual (i.e. there is no universal association between a certain letter or a certain color), are not made up or learned, and usually remain the same throughout life.
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One Synesthete’s Alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
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Which of these is an example of mechanoreception?
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1. Taste2. Smell3. Hearing4. Pain5. Vision
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Senses involving chemoreception include:
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1. Sight and sound2. Smell and taste3. Taste and sound4. Smell and sight
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The retina is located:
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1. At the front of the eye.
2. In the back of the eye.
3. In the center of the eye.