Invitation to Psychology

126 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain decreases. Inhibition in the nervous system is vi- tal. Without it, we could not ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 127 that something about a disorder leads to abnor- mal neurotransmitter levels inste ...

128 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain in preparation for a fertilized egg, among other functions. Estrogens and progest ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 129 injury. Another is to stimulate the brains of patients having brain surgery to tr ...

130 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain “Listening” to the brain with an EEG ma- chine is like standing outside a sports ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 131 that these images can convey oversimplified and sometimes misleading impressions ...

132 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain poor definitions of the behavior being studied, and inappropriate interpretations ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 133 and that you are wending your way through the “soul’s frail dwelling house,” star ...

134 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain The Hypothalamus and the Pituitary gland Beneath the thalamus sits a structure ca ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 135 The Hippocampus The shape of the hippocampus must have re- minded someone of a se ...

136 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain are particularly sensitive. Parts of the parietal lobes are also involved in atte ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 137 who could not hold a steady job or stick to a plan. His employers had to let him ...

138 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain In 1953, Ronald E. Myers and Roger W. Sperry took the first step toward answering ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 139 colleagues (and later, other researchers) showed that perception and memory had b ...

140 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain reasonable explanation for the laughter (Gazzaniga, 1967). Indeed, Michael Gazzan ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 141 activities, the two sides cooperate naturally, with each making a valuable contri ...

142 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain letters and sounds (Tang et al., 2006). In the words of one researcher, “Much lik ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 143 are said to have hardwired brain differences that explain, among other things, wo ...

144 Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain and females have shown different patterns of brain activity while they were doing ...

Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain 145 Researchers once were convinced that men’s brains were less lateralized than wome ...