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Usology in Psychology
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100
He put his volunteers in a brain scanner and wafted disgusint odors into their nostrils, activating their anterior insula. People watching film clips later of it experienced activity in that same part of the brain. (Hint:He played a ____ role in the discovery of mirror neurons.)
Who is Dr. Christian Keysers?
100
They were the animal in which action-sensitive mirror-neurons were the first to be found.
What is the rhesus monkey?
100
A syndrome in which it is thought that something is awry in their "mirroring system."
What is autism?
100
One or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body. -Dictionary.com
What is a nerve?
200
He supported the assertation that a lack of mirror-neuron activity is at least partially the cause of autism by studying mu-waves. He pasting electrodes on volunteers' scalps and faces and monitering them as they performed various tasks.
Who is Vilayanur Ramachandran?
200
The motion tested which the subject first did, and then watched, in the experiment done by Dr. Ramachandran. It compared the activity of mu-waves in autistic vs. non-autistic people.
What is opening and closing hands?
200
A method of detecting an activated part of the brain. An EEG, PET, MRI, CAT, or MEG wold be an example of this.
What is a brain scanner?
200
Exemplified by the reaction of people while watching a large hairy spider crawl over James Bond in which they can literally feel Connery's fear.
What is empathy?
200
An electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals. -wiki.com
What is a neuron?
300
He published a study in the "Public Library of Science Biology" that showed that there is far more activity in someone's brain when they see something which incites a feeling that they can relate to. The experiment published depicted the activity in the brain of subjects when they saw a picture of a teacup being grasped in the context of a scene that included biscuits, milk and a teapot, suggesting the hand belongs to someone about to eat and drink, versus when the scene comtains empty plates, suggesting the hand belongs to someone who is clearing up.
Who is Dr. Marco Iacobani?
300
Controlled variables in Dr. Ramachandran's experiment. Brain activity was measured while watching these versus watching the opening and closing of hands.
What is visual static and balls bouncing together and apart?
300
The two purposes of mirror neurons.
What is to learn and to empathize?
300
1. An agent or action that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response. 2. A spur or incentive.
What is stimuli?
400
He published a paper in "Science," similar to Dr. Iacoboni's, but which suggests that monkeys' mirror neurons are also capable of distinguishing intentions through the use of pellets and electrodes.
Who is Dr. Leonardo Fogassi?
400
The difference in mu-waves which Dr. Ramachandran found between people with and without autism. Healthy people do this not only when actions are executed, but also when they are observed or imagined. In people with autism, however, this only occurs when the action is being executed.
What is suppression of mu-waves?
400
A tool with tips so fine that they can be places against a single cell, measuring the activity of individual neurons within a group of action-sensitive cells to determine the electric signals that the brain is firing off.
What are electrodes?
400
Possible ramifications of mirror cells in motive and deception made able by understanding what someone else thinks.
What is manipualation?
400
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior, strongly influenced by mirror nerves.
What is ethics?
500
These two neurologists were responsible for leading a group in discovering mirror neurons.
Who is Dr. Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese?
500
This is also mirrored in the same way, supported by the less emphasized experiment of Dr. Keysers.
What is sense of touch?
500
A term used to describe the extent to which one individual can understand and anticipate the intentions of one another, a pertinent concern that arose from the observations of mirror neurons.
What is "theory of mind?"
500
An electrical oscillation (regular fluctuation) in the brain that has a frequency of between eight and thirteen cycles a second.
What is mu-waves?