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| planning the next movement |
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| controlled by cortial and sub-cortical areas |
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| Perceptual-motor integration |
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use our senses to move
Proprioception – sensing our environment |
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Stimulus identification.inferior temporal lobe
Response selection.inferior parietal lobe
Motor planning.primary motor cortex
Information coded in spatial coordinates
Motor output
Information recorded in terms of motor movements
Execution |
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| Substantia nigra and globus pallidus |
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Substantia nigra dies
Rest tremors
Akinesia
Hypokinesia
Bradykinesia
Dyskinesia |
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| difficulty with momentary movement |
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| movement are very effortful |
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| problem with control movements |
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Striatum dies
Hyperkinesias (complex involuntary motor movements) |
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Timing of actions
Bad at perception of time, velocity |
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| Loss of motor control on one side |
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| Loss of motor coordination |
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| follow verbal commands but you have trouble initiating |
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| don’t follow commands well at all |
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Females have slight edge on verbal tasks
Males have a slight edge on visual/spatial tasks |
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| Skull structure – Left hemisphere asymmetrical our left side face bones are larger |
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| specialization Environmental |
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| Fetal position – most fetus’s are head down |
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| specialization Functional |
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| Microanatomical differences – account for why certain things end up in certain places |
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| lower animals can’t focus on a lot at once |
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| animals can keep track of an object under 3 cups |
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| Memory: Operant conditioning |
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| animals have to remember how to run a maze |
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| if we fail, we try something new |
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| Pigeons have a good concept of trees, birds, power lines, but don’t care about humans |
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| Awareness of others: Povinelli |
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| understanding others’ perception |
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| Assessing knowledge state |
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| two men point to food, one has a bucket on his head: The chimp believes the man who can see |
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| Explains why there are different languages but same mouth sounds |
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| Dog/chicken/human embryos all look the same, specie differences happen in utero. This is totally wrong |
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| Functionalism- Believed that human cognitive functions (memory/language) evolved due to our environment |
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Cost: a bright color bird – attract enemies easier
Benefit: a bright bird – attract mates |
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| Punctuated equilibrium (Gould) |
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little spurts of change
opposite Darwin |
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| like the fact that blood is red |
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| birds use wings as sun visors |
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| there was one major event which led us to speak |
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| Processes in the brain development |
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Proliferation – growth of brain cells
Migration – neurons spread out in brain
Differentiation – neurons specialize to do certain things
Synaptogenesis – different connections are made constantly |
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| Plasticity: Cortical reorganization |
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-Absence of input – if born deaf, the auditory part of the brain focus on visual/sensory
-Amputation |
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| Neuroanatomical correlates: consciousness |
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| measured by putting people in different situations and look at brain scans |
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-Descartes – mind/body dualism – argues against that mind is brain – our feelings are just instinctive
-Popular dualism ghosts in the machine – our soul and body are different
-Property dualism – mind is integrated with the brain
-Reductionism – consciousness = brain
-Functionalism – look a purpose of behavior |
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- Anoetic (not knowing) – being aware of things
- Noetic (knowing) – understanding the meaning of something
- Autonoeatic (self-knowing) – aware of ourselves |
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- Sentience – just being aware
- Access to information – the ability to report conscious experience
- Self-knowledge – ability to reflect on what we know |
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| structure of conciseness, many parts put together |
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| stream of consciousness, one stream |
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| Dual coding hypothesis (Pavio) |
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- Verbal coding system – something like justice
- Imagery – something about its senses |
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| Bilateral temporal and left occipital lesions |
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| difficulty seeing and imagining things |
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| the way we describe things verbally is how we think about them |
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| # of terms varies, but in a regular order – languages always have red |
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