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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (The Relationship Between Mind and Brain…
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
2 Broad Views of the mind-brain link
Functional Specialization
Jerry Fodor's Modularity of Mind Hypothesis
Modules (domain specific, perform limited numbers of tasks, inborn)
Rationalist views
Phrenology
Gall
Spurzheim
Opposes Functional Specialization
Franz & Lashley : studied effects of ablation
Law of Mass Action
Law of equipotentiality
The Relationship Between Mind and Brain
Interactionism
Dualsim
Descartes
Epiphenomenalism
Huxley
Ismorphism
Parallelism
Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
Behavioral/Psychophysiological Measurements
Eye-Tracking:
used a lot in language research (to see how people read)
Attentional research
Skin-Conductance Response:
arousal
Veterans with PTSD
Neuropsychological Cases
Surgical Intervention
Split-Brain
Roger Sperry: examined cases of the patients
Animal Models
Franz & Lashley: Lesions
Morris Water Maze
Neuroimaging techniques
MRI/fMRI
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ERP
MEEG
Good Temporal Resolution
PET
Good Spatial Resolution
EEG
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Brain Stimulation
Connectionist Models
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Neurons that FIRE together, WIRE together
Serial v.s Parallel Processing
Parallel: many neural connections may be active at the same time
Serial: only 1 neural activity may take place at any one time