cog neuro textbook

Question 1

reductionism

Answer 1

replacing mind-based concepts with neuroscientific concepts

Question 2

the information processing approach of behaviour

Answer 2

describing behaviour in a series of cognitive stages

Question 3

modularity

Answer 3

the idea that certain cognitive processes are restricted in the type of info they process

Question 4

domain specificity

Answer 4

a cognitive process or region is dedicated solely to one particular type of information

Question 5

single cell recordings

Answer 5

measure the responsiveness of a neuron to a given stimulus (in action potentials /per second)

Question 6

electroencephalography (EEG)

Answer 6

measurements of electrical signals generated by the brain through an electrodes cap being placed on the scalp

Question 7

event-related potential (ERP)

Answer 7

the average amount of change in voltage that is linked to the timing of particular cognitive events (actions / reactions / stimulus)

Question 8

grandmother cell

Answer 8

a hypothetical neuron which responds to one particular stimulus (EX - grandmother)

Question 9

3 types of neural representation

Answer 9

local representation - all the info about an event is in one single neuron
fully distributed representation - all the info about an event is in all the neurons of a specific population
sparse distributed representation - a small proportion of the neurons carry info about an event