The Nervous System
The division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The type of brain-imaging technique used in the Love Competition
What is FMRI?
The lobe responsible for processing vision
What is the occipital lobe?
The calming or inhibitory neurotransmitter
What is GABA?
The process by which new knowledge or experiences are converted to more permanent, long-term storage
What is memory consolidation?
A psychological phenomenon where people mistake physiological symptoms of fear, anxiety, or high adrenaline for romantic attraction
What is the suspension bridge effect OR the misattribution of arousal?
A lesion to this man's frontal lobe provided evidence that the regions of our brain are specialized
Who is Phineas Gage?
This structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain, carrying messages between them
What is the corpus callosum?
This neurotransmitter plays a central role in learning, memory, and attention, and dwindles in supply in old age.
What is acetylcholine?
What dreams represent, according to Freud.
What is wish-fulfillment?
The two main components of the central nervous system
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity sweeping across the brain’s surface, measured by electrodes placed on the scalp
What is an EEG?
Located in the hindbrain, this structure regulates sleep
What is the pons?
A layer of fatty tissue encasing a neuron, enabling greater transmission speed of neural impulses
What is myelin?
Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation
What is sensory adaptation?
The division of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary muscle movement
What is the somatic nervous system?
The brain's ability to perform a task using fewer resources to achieve the same or better performance
What is neural efficiency?
This hemisphere controls speech
What is the left hemisphere?
High levels of this neurotransmitter may lead to increased pain sensitivity
What is substance P?
The minimum stimulus energy or intensity needed to detect a particular stimulus
What is an absolute threshold?
Name four symptoms associated with activation of the sympathetic nervous system
What are (four of the following): dilated pupils, inhibited salivation (dry mouth), increased heartbeat, relaxed airways, inhibited digestion, release of adrenaline, relaxed bladder?
The two types of neuroplasticity we would expect to observe among paralympians
What are use-dependent and impairment-specific plasticity?
An area of the parietal lobe that processes touch
What is the somatosensory cortex?
This part of the neuron receives incoming information
What are dendrites?
The reason why we have a blind spot
What is the lack of photoreceptors at the point which our optic nerve connects to our retina?