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From Serendip | Neurobiology and Behavior 2000 |
Jan 18:
Organization of class: to facilitate ongoing conversation, inquiry
| Hmmm. All organizational routine? Wonder if this has anything to do with the subject of the course? |
Subject of class: relation between brain and behavior
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Status of assertion? Truth? If not, what?
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Jan 20:
The brain and how it works: where to begin?
| Alright, at least got one "fact" to keep in mind. Brain is upper end of nervous system, which includes spinal cord, other things. Is he really going to show us its not "special"? As for this "being wrong" thing, is HE going to be willing to be wrong three times a week? | |
What's wrong with the spaghetti/phone switchboard
model? - thinking about crickets
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Jan 25:
SNOW
Jan 27:
Brain=behavior? poll results:
yes | maybe | no |
6 | 7 | 15 |
Some further implications of the brain=behavior notion
| Interesting. Maybe individuality and "learning" make sense this way? The brain isn't something you're born with that never changes, and its different in every person? But also similar in different people and somehow similar through time in one person? Wonder how that could be? | |||
Elaborating the nervous system as input-output box model
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Feb 1:
Some "brain=behavior" issues from forum:
Looking for more boxes inside the box
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Divisions of the nervous system
Comparative Neuroanatomy (mammalian)
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
Global Anatomy, includes neuroscience and histology units, resources
Feb 3:
Interconnected boxes within boxes within boxes
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Feb 8:
Some forum thoughts:
Finding the "signal" that neurons use - the action potential
| You know, he's doing it AGAIN. I LEARNED about action potentials already, and there weren't any BATTERIES. Where did these BATTERIES come from? Why can't he just talk about this stuff the NORMAL way, instead of throwing in all these things that confuse me? This diffusion thing, though, that's kind of interesting. Things always in motion (no "first mover"), random motion gives direction, maybe organization? Have to think more about that. |
The resting potential as a way to understand the action potential
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The Virtual Neurophysiology Lab
From Random Motion to Order: Diffusion and Some of its Implications
Feb 10:
From the resting potential to the action potential
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Feb 15:
Some forum thoughts:
Feb 17:
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