2005). Gage was using a tamping rod to compact the powder in the holes before detonation when suddenly a precipitous explosion propelled the rod, which was 1.1 meters long, 6 millimeters thick, and weighing 6 kilograms, through his left cheek and brain, exiting out the vault of his skull (Leach & O'Driscoll, 1998). Surprisingly, Gage remained conscious on the ride to the doctor. Once there, Dr. Harlow, the attending physician, bandaged his wounds, which bled for an additional 2 days. Gage showed
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Psychology 220: Brain and Behavior: The brain’s unique behavior Brain and Behavior JoAnn Rissman 08/20/2012 Abstract “Ouch! That’s really hot!” Forcing your brain to speak to your body is one simple example of how the brain is to human behavior. “Ouch! Don’t touch that!” This is what is your brain is registering as you touch a hot surface. Your brain is sending a message to your hand that is touching the extremely hot surface, saying “pull away now”. The brain is a wonderful machine
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Jiho Kim Dichotic Listening Sep.13.2012 Web working part 1 Attention can be described as a set of cognitive processes that allow us to concentrate on one set of events in our environment while ignoring other events. In this experiment, it was hard to distinguish between left sound and right sound. At the first section, I got the all correct answer. I thought it is not too difficult, and my tension (or attention) was getting decreased. However, when I took other questions, I got the all incorrect
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back. Grandpa and the porcupine were only a few feet from one another. He knew his little 22 wasn’t as efficient as his shotgun. His plan was to shoot the porcupine in the eye in hopes to hit his brain. The trigger was pulled. Grandpa had shot the porcupine in the eye but amazingly didn’t hit his brain. He squealed and twisted and ran out of the patch. A stream of blood was left behind by the porcupine. Grandpa whistled at Jazz and they followed the trail of blood that led them to a canal.
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2013 Prof. Pitt Recognizing Faces Paper Face recognition develops slowly throughout one’s life. Recognizing a face can be a difficult for the individual and also for the brain system that processes it. The complexity of recognizing individual faces can be a difficult task at times. Recognizing faces also includes looking at an individual’s emotional expression and then being able to take that information and processing it
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Speech Perception and the McGurk Effect It is often assumed that speech perception is primarily an auditory process. However, in recent research it has been proven that it is now known that seeing the face of the speaker is just as important for the hearing impaired, for speech development, and also when dealing with a complicated or degraded auditory signal. Audiovisual speech also provides a rich forum in which to study more general issues in Cognitive Science. Auditory information is the major
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Can I live without my pons? The pons is the portion of the brain that lies above the Medulla Oblongata and below the midbrain as well as being anterior to the cerebrum (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2012). In bipeds it can be measured up to 2.5cm in length. The pons links the cerebellum with the midbrain, the diencephalon, the cerebrum, and the spinal cord (Martini, Nath and Bartholomew, 2012). It is a horse shoe shaped mass of transverse nerve fibres, that act as the point of origin for four of the
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providing people with information, is very exciting to me. Although it is not my planned route of study, I would love to learn about the science of psychology and neuroscience. I am fascinated by the functions of the brain and nervous system, as well as the study of the mind, brain,
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receptor cells. The olfactory receptor cells then transmit the impulse and enter the olfactory tract which is the pathway to the olfactory nerve. Once this chemical has entered the central nervous system, it is input into the mammillary body of the brain which acts as a memory bank. The sense of smell of the hamburger then triggers the urge to eat the hamburger. This simple action actually involves numerous body structures from the nervous system, skeletal system, and muscular system. To be able
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rapidly becoming understandable. Stress begins with the perception of danger by the brain, and it appears that continued stress can actually bias the brain to perceive more danger by altering brain structures such as those which govern the perception of and response to threat. Prolonged exposure to cortisol inhibits the growth of new neurons, and can cause increased growth of the amygdala, the portion of the brain that controls fear and other emotional responses. The end result is heightened expectation
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