A2 Biopsychology 1

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  • Biopsychology
    • localisation of function
      • Lateralisation, cerebral cortex, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe. Somatosensory area, Wernicke's area, Broca's area, audiotory and visual area.
        • A03 Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia. Tan, Peterson - Wernicke active in listening, Broca = reading. Dougherty 44 OCD cingulotomy 1/3 success.14% partial. Phineas Gage,
        • A03 Lashley - rats. Cortical remapping Equipotentiality. Holistic. blindsight Overgaard.
          • Meyer imagining a bang. Fedorenko - two regions in Broca.
    • Plasticity
      • A01 2-3 years 15000 synaptic connections. Synaptic pruning. Maguire - Taxi Drivers posterior hippocampus.
        • A03 Hubel and Weisel Kittens eyes. Bezzola - golf age effects can be overcome. Meditation Lazar Equipotentiality.
        • A03 Age effects. Boyke - short term. Drug use = poor cognitive function. 60%-80% amputees = phantom limb
      • Functional recovery
        • A01 Swelling reduction, Axonal sprouting,Neural unmasking, Stem cells
          • A03 Depends on age. Tueber - soldiers recovery. Elbert - children. Education Schneider. EB,
    • Split brain research
      • A01 Sperry Corpus Callosum. RVF = left hemisphere = language. LVF = right hemisphere = images. Conditions, describe a picture, recognise by touch, composite words, matching faces
        • A03  Standardised procedures, 1/10th second. Pucetti - emphasised a natural duality.  Left is for analytical and language. Right = holistic gestalt synthesiser.
        • A03 Oversimplified. Left needs right to add emotional context. Turk - right for faces left for self recognition. need both. Methodological flaws.

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