-The Nervous SystemSoundMcgurk Effect- you experience a distortion and your modes (sight and sound in this case) are not working in 100% cohesionThe plastic brain…Memories are certain pathways of patterns of neuronsIt learns. When it learns, it changes.The brain is constantly changing, and it has to.Not set in stoneLearningInjury- brain uses its plasticity to compensateEx: Using echolocation when blindNeuroplasticityThe nervous system’s potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injuryThe Central Nervous System (CNS)BrainSpinal CordPeripheral Nervous System (PNS)Every other nerve fiber that extends out from the CNS-The Peripheral Nervous SystemPeripheral Nervous SystemSomatic Nervous SystemPart of the PNS that includes the cranial and spinal nerves to and from the muscles, joints, and skin that produce movement, transmit incoming sensory input and inform the CNS about the position and movement of body parts.Autonomic Nervous SystemPart of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glandsSympatheticArousingEx: Fight-or-flightParasympatheticCalmingCommunicationAfferent- incoming information (ex: fingertips to brain)Efferent- outgoing information (ex: brain to fingertips)Check out“The Basics: Finding Your Way Through The Brain”Pgs. 38-39Brain-Body Orientation – human picturePSYC 260 1st EditionLecture 5Outline of Last LectureI. Human Evolution (Continued)II. Time LineChapter 2: The Nervous SystemI. The Nervous Systema. The BrainOutline of Current LectureII. The Nervous SystemIII. The Peripheral Nervous SystemCurrent Lecture -The Nervous System- Soundo Mcgurk Effect- you experience a distortion and your modes (sight and soundin this case) are not working in 100% cohesion - The plastic brain…o Memories are certain pathways of patterns of neuronso It learns. When it learns, it changes. o The brain is constantly changing, and it has to.o Not set in stone Learning Injury- brain uses its plasticity to compensate Ex: Using echolocation when blind o Neuroplasticity  The nervous system’s potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury- The Central Nervous System (CNS)o Brain o Spinal Cord- Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)o Every other nerve fiber that extends out from the CNS -The Peripheral Nervous System- Peripheral Nervous Systemo Somatic Nervous System  Part of the PNS that includes the cranial and spinal nerves to and from the muscles, joints, and skin that produce movement, transmit incoming sensory input and inform the CNS about the position and movement of body parts.o Autonomic Nervous System Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands Sympathetic- Arousingo Ex: Fight-or-flight Parasympathetic- Calmingo Communication Afferent- incoming information (ex: fingertips to brain) Efferent- outgoing information (ex: brain to fingertips) Check out- “The Basics: Finding Your Way Through The Brain”o Pgs. 38-39- Brain-Body Orientation – human