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What is the Parietal Lobe
This lobe houses primary somatosensory cortex
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What is a tamping iron
This item passed through Phineas Gage’s brain.
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What are the Schwann cells?
These cells are responsible for myelinating neurons in the peripheral nervous system.
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What is James-Lange theory?
This theory of emotion stated that we feel emotion only after physiological changes take place in our body.
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What is resting membrane potential?
This is the name of the voltage a cell stays at when it is not being stimulated by other neurons.
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What is the dermis
This is the second most outer layer of the skin
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What are affordances
These are features of the environment that are significant to an animal’s needs for good or ill.
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What is it's diameter?
The conduction speed of an action potential varies with this characteristic of the axon.
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What is the Amygdala?
This part of the brain is involved in fear learning and processing.
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What is 55mV?
At what voltage is the equilibrium potential of sodium.
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What is adaptation
This is the reduction of a neuronal response as a result of prolonged stimulation
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What is Wesleyan
What does Jason’s amino-acid t-shirt say?
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What is calcium?
The entrance of this ion into the axon terminal promotes the exocytosis of neurotransmitter into the synapse.
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What is Cannon-Bard theory?
This theory posits that emotional experience is due to states of the brain rather than physiological states of the body.
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What is Glutamate?
This chemical is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain.
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What are vibrissae
These whiskers are used by some mammals to sense their local environments and gather information about nearby objects
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What is a coronal cut
This is a type of brain section that involved cutting the brain from the dorsal to ventral surface, parallel to the central sulcus
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What is kinesin?
This motor protein is responsible for transporting nutrients and other vital supplies from the soma toward the terminal.
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What is sham rage?
This emotional expression state can be produced by in a cat by stimulation of the hypothalamus
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What is the Goldman equation?
This equation allows one to compute the resting membrane potential of a cell is one knows the concentration of ions inside and outside the cell and the membrane conductances
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What are C fibers
These narrow and unmyelinated neurons are responsible for transmitting slow, aching pain.
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What is the fusiform gyrus
This area, located in the inferior temporal lobe is necessary for facial recognition, and is often damaged in patients with prosopagnosia.
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What is the voltage gated potassium channel?
This ion channel is responsible for bringing the cell back to resting membrane potential
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What is the ventral tegmental area?
Stimulation of this area in the floor of the mesencephalon can produce predatory aggression
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What is absolute refractory period?
This is the period of the action potential during which the neuron can not fire any further action potentials.
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