Cognitive Neuropsychology Flashcards
What is cognitive neuropsychology?
The study of brain-damaged patients to understand human cognition in general and provides fairly direct evidence of brain-cognition interconnections.
What is Functional Modularity?
Independent processing units, exhibiting domain specify i.e. responding to only one class of stimuli
What is Anatomical Modularity?
Each cognitive module is in a specific brain region
What is the universality assumption?
Organisation of cognitive functions very similar across all individuals
What is subtractivity?
Brain damage can only disrupt modules or connections between them: patients do not develop new modules to compensate
What are the four lobes in the brain?
Frontal, Parietal, Occipital and Temporal
What is the temporal divided from and by?
Divided from the parietal lobes by the central sulcus.
What does the lateral fissure separate?
The temporal lobes from the parietal and frontal lobes
