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Neuroscience and a sense of place
Neuroscience and a sense of place
Wendy SternbergDepartment of
PsychologyHaverford College
Wendy SternbergDepartment of
PsychologyHaverford College
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Making sense of the body in which you live
Brain TransplantYou are your brainExploration questions
How does the brain produce conscious experience?Is your consciousness the same as mine?How do we know the brain gives rise to mind?What does this mean for my outlook on life?
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Concepts to cover
• Historical perspectives on mind-brainCartesian dualism
• From the clinic: neuropsychologyReadings from Oliver SacksAnterograde Amnesia (Memento; HM, Clive Wearing)
• Phantom Limbs• Hallucinations• Brain stimulation• Psychopharmacology (drug effects on behavior)
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Internet Resources
Society for Neurosciencewww.sfn.orgBrain Facts book/pdf
Neuroscience for Kidshttp://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
Neuroanatomyhttp://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.htmlhttp://www.loni.ucla.edu
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Hands on Neuroanatomy
• Sheep brains• Ward’s Biological• http://academic.scranton.edu/department/ps
ych/sheep/• http://www.psychology.uoguelph.ca/learnm
atl/sheep_labman/Contents.html• Basic principles
• Comparative anatomy• Protection of the brain• Divisions of the brain
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Station 1: Lateralization
Corpus CallosumHemispheric Specialization
Right brain/left brain?Split Brain Procedure
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Chimeric Faces task
• Which face do you see in the bottom photo?
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Sensory systems
• Sensation is the business of the brain• We synthesize the worlds in our brains• Gather stimulus energy from outside world,
transduce it into electrochemical energy of the nervous system, and sometimes, into the ephemeral nature of conscious perception
• Accuracy? http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_muelue/index.html
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_shepardTables/index.html
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Station 2: Somatosensory Map
• Somatotopic maps exist in the brain• Motor homunculus
• Sensory homunculus
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Station 3: Sensory Habituation
Olfactory systemHabituation
Receptor fatigueAdaptiveness
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Station 4: Visual System
Blind spotColor afterimages
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Blind Spot Demo
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Color afterimages
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Color opponency in the retina
+R-G+G-R+B-Y+Y-B+B-W+W-B
Opponent process