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| enough incoming synchronous transmissions allow next neuron to fire |
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based on stains/distribution of neurons.
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| how cortical areas are connected to each other |
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| filled with cerebrospinal fluid |
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| organized set of principles to explain observed phenomenon |
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| specific way in which a variable is measured/manipulated |
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| may affect outcome you want but is not of interest to the present study. control group used to prevent it |
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| two things happen at the same time |
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| understanding what causes something to happen |
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| performed conscious electrical stimulation |
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| variety of higher mental processes |
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| tries to explain cog processes in terms of brain based mechanisms |
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| how can physical substance give rise to our feelings? |
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| mind and brain made of different substances (Descartes) |
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| mind and brain are 2 levels of the same thing (spinoza) |
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| mind concepts will be replaced by neurosci (churchland) |
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| brain cooling system, heart cognition |
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| diff in cognition creates diff in skull and brain bumps (gall and spurzheim) |
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| functional specialization |
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| different regions in the brain special for different fuctions |
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| cognitive neuropsychology |
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| study of brain damage to find out theory of normal cognition |
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| behavior is a sequence of cognitive states (broadbent) |
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| later stages influence earlier ones |
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| different info processed at the same time |
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| processing with interconnected nodes |
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| info carrying unit of neural net; responds to input |
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| certain cog processes ristricted in type info processed (fodor) |
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| cog process/region dedicated to 1 type of info |
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| neurons respond to stimuli of just 1 visual location (receptive field) and more to lines at a particular orientation (preferred stimulus) |
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