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collectively refers to a variety of higher mental processes such as thinking, perceiving, imagining, speaking, acting, and planning
cognition
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a bridging discipline between cognitive science and cognitive psychology
cognitive neuroscience
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how is it that physical substance can give rise to our feelings, thoughts, and emotions?
mind body problem
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the position that the mind and brain are made up of different kinds of substance, even though they may interact
dualism
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if dualism is true there is little hope for _____ ____ because the methods of physical and biological sciences cannot tap into the non physical domain
cognitive neuro science
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argued that mind and brain were two different levels of explanation for the same thing, but not two different kinds of thing
Spinoza (1632-1677). This is also the definition for the dual aspect theory
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this position states that although cognitive, mind based concepts are currently useful for scientific exploration, they will eventually be replaced by purely biological constructs
reductionism
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denied existence of innate ideas, the mind is a tabula rasa, the heart is the source of the mind.
Aristotle (300's BC)
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different regions of the brain perform different functions and are associated with different behaviors
functional specialization
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He concluded that language could be localized to a particular region of the brain
Paul Broca 1892
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noted link between different brain area and different behaviors. concluded that language itself was not a single entity but could be further subdivided into speech recognition, speech production and conceptual knowlege
Carl Wernicke 1874
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Broca and Wernickes work was important because empirical knowledge was...
being used to determine what the building blocks of cognition are
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approach of using patients with acquired brain damage to inform theories of normal cognition is called
cognitive neuropsychology
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modern foundations of cognitive psychology lie in the computer metaphor. much of cognition consists of a sequence of processing stages
information processing
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the fact that stages in processing may not be strictly separate that later stages can begin before earlier stages are complete
interactivity
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refers to the fact that lots of different information can be processed simultaneously
parallel processing
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the influence of later stages on the processing of earlier ones (memory influences perception)
top down processing
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computational models in which information processing occurs using many interconnected nodes
neural network model
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the basic units of neural network models that are activated in response to activity in other parts of the network
nodes
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the accuracy with which one can measure when an event (physiological change) occurs
temporal resolution
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the accuracy with which one can measure where an event is occurring
spatial resolution
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"this derives from the familiar computer analogy that one can supposedly learn about information processing without knowing about the brain"
cognitive psychology vs cognitive neuroscience.
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functional imaging and other advances in neuro science do require insights from _____ ______ to frame and approach research questions
cognitive psychology
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