How is the critical period significant to the development of visual capacity in mammals?

How does habituation occur at a synapse?

How is coordination in animals different in the nervous and endocrine system?

How do we know the structure of the different parts of brain?

Zhara and Sehar

1. How are are location and functions of brain structures connected?

2. How are scans used in medical diagnosis and the investigation of brain structure and function ?

3. How does the critical period allow mammals develop their visual capacity at its fullest?

4. Why could moral and ethical issues be raised when using animals for medical research?

5. How can habituation to a stimulus be investigated using a practical ?

How different brain scans work

Why is the critical period significant for visual development

How are memory learning and habituation related

How can you investigate habituation to a stimulus

Fatema and Ibrahim

1. how can the structure and function of the brain be related? (Brain structure, function, brain scans)

2. How do animal studies indicate the significance of the critical period? (Critical period and related studies)

3. Why is the use of animals in research problematic? (Consent, utilitarianism, etc,)

4. How can habituation be observed and investigated? (Core practicals)

5. How are cross-cultural studies and newborn behaviours related to ideas of habituation and learning? (Memory, learning, nature vs nurture)

How does the critical period allow perception of visual information and the proper development of visual capacity in mammals?

Why are animal models used and give an example where they are used to form conclusions about the critical period and discuss some ethics involved?

Why is habituation important and give two examples of how habituation can be observed?

How is memory and learning related and how are memories stored?

Naima and Marwa

• how does the structures of the brain have different functions?

• why are the different types of scans used to investigate structure and functions of the brain?

• Why is it important that proper visual capacity in mammals is formed?

• how are the different types of animal models linked to human brain development and function, further discussing the ethical issues for use of animals?

• how is memory, learning and habituations linked together?

• How are memories stored and what are they?

• how habituation can be investigated using sea slugs and snails and how it occurs at the synapse?

Nkeonye & Arden

How do we know the functions of different structures in the brain?

How is the critical period involved in visual development?

How do ethical issues arise from the use of animal models?

How is memory related to habituation?

How did human observation allow us to conclude how habituation occurs?

• How do we know the different structures of the brain relate to its function

• How is imaging used to investigate structures of the brain

• Why do scientists using animal models lead to ethical issues

• Explain how animal studies lead to critical period in mammals

• how does habituation occur at a synapse and how it can be investigated using snails and sea slugs

• How does memory , learning and habituation relate

1) how do we know which areas of the brain is responsible for each function

2) how is the critical period necessary and how do scientists determine when it occurs?

3) Why is it ethically wrong to use animals in experimentation?

4)How are studies on nature vs nurture carried out?

5)How does the brain react to stimulus and what is reduced during habituation?

6)How can we investigate habituation?