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The modern view of the cognitive unconscious is that it is a place teeming with animalistic urges and repressed thoughts.
Depolarization
A decrease in the charge difference across a plasma membrane; may result in an action potential in a neuron or muscle cell.
Squid Axon Experiments
Classic scientific experiments conducted to understand the properties of nerve cells by studying the giant axon of squid.
Alan Hodgkin
A British physiologist and biophysicist who, along with Andrew Huxley, elucidated the ionic mechanism underlying nerve impulse transmission, work for which they received the Nobel Prize.
Andrew Huxley
A British physiologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963, for his work on the basis of nerve impulse transmission.
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