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An account (usually verbal) of events that were observed or experienced by the person giving the account. Such accounts may be used as evidence in a court of law.

Any agent (e.g., alcohol, rubella) or environmental influence (e.g., exposure to X-rays, PCBs) that results in the abnormal development of the growing fetes, particularly non-heritable birth defects.  The abnormalities consist of two outcomes: congenital malformations and congenital anomalies.  Teratogenic effects can result in damage to organiser capacity of cells or their competence to react to organisers, …

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The field of study concerned with the causes, mechanisms and manifestations of abnormal development, whether the result of genetic defect or environmental influence . See Teratogens

when the patellar tendon is stimulated, it leads to a brief stretch of the agonist quadriceps muscle, as well as activating the muscle spindles. The resultant sensory information is sent to the tray matter in the spinal cord. At the same time that the Œ±-motoneuron is excited, leading to contraction of the quadriceps it also …

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Either the smallest detectable gap that can be perceived in an ongoing auditory passage, or the smallest change in tempo that can be detected. See Masked threshold, Sensitivity threshold, Temporal contiguity window

Inferotemporal cortex  See Cortical lobes, Dorsal visual pathway (or stream), Entorhinal cortex, Metabolism, Occipital cortex (or lobe), Occipital-temporal pathway, Orbitofrontal cortex, Two visual systems hypothesis, Ventral visual pathway (or stream)

The temporal span over which auditory-visual pairings are perceived as synchronous. See Masked threshold, Sensitivity threshold, Temporal resolution

Constitutionally-based individual differences in emotional, motor, and attentional reactivity, and self-regulation.  More generally, it is person’s characteristic disposition, or style of approaching and reacting to people and situations.  See Childhood Behaviour Questionnaire (CBQ), Extraversion, Five factor model, Goodness-of-fit (psychology), Impulsiveness, Impulsivity, New York Longitudinal Study (NYLS), Neuroticism, Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), Personality, Surgency

See Brain (or encephalon), Diencephalon, Metencephalon, Prosencephalon

Discounting interphase in meiosis, the fourth phase of cell division. In the first telophase of meiosis (following prophase, metaphase and anaphase), whole chromosomes from the pairs that separated at the first anaphase form the daughter cells.  The number of chromosomes is thus half the number in the original one. In the second telophase of the …

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