Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Chapter 5: Brains of Mammals

  • Introduction
    • Olfactory brain is sheet-like, similar in structure to the cortex.
  • Neurons and Networks
    • Discussion of how a signal travels down a neuron.
    • Olfactory is associative not point to point like vision or touch.
    • Description of the olfactory system.
  • Learning
    • Description of neuron learning
    • Once the olfactory system became able to learn, it could be used for anything, not just smell.

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