cognitive neuroscience

Question 1

dualism and the idea that the brain and mind are separate but can interact describes what?

Answer 1

interactionism

Question 2

mental thoughts in the mind being the result of physical events in the brain describes what?

Answer 2

epiphenomenalism

Question 3

what is a criticism of epiphenomenalism?

Answer 3

feeling emotions such as rage or stress can dictate your physical actions

Question 4

the mind and the brain being two aspects of the same thing describes?

Answer 4

parallelism

Question 5

there being no link between the brain and the mind but a similarity in structure describes what

Answer 5

isomorphism

Question 6

the brain has modules that perform specific tasks describes what?

Answer 6

modularity of the mind hypothesis

Question 7

what is phrenology

Answer 7

location of bumps on someones head indicates mental strengths and weaknesses

Question 8

franz and lashley’s findings that the AMOUNT of brain damage and not the AREA of brain damage affects cognitive functions supports what?

Answer 8

brain plasticity

Question 9

the ability to perform mental tasks depends on the total mass of brain tissue remaining after damage defines ______. any part of the brain can do the job of any other part refers to _______

Answer 9

law of mass action

law of equipotentiality

Question 10

measuring activity in the body like in the peripheral system or skin conductance is what method at measuring how the brain supports cognition?

Answer 10

Psychophysiological Measurements

Question 11

how does Neuropsychological Cases study how the brain supports cognition?

Answer 11

study brain function by comparing brain behaviour of brain damaged patients to healthy ones

Question 12

the left hemisphere supports ___ and ____ while the right supports _____-____ _____

Answer 12

speech, language

visual-spatial processing

Question 13

what is corpus callosum?

Answer 13

connection between two hemispheres

Question 14

what do neuroimaging techniques do?

Answer 14

measure neural communication which is both chemical, electrical, and a metabolic event

Question 15

how does electroencephalography (EEG) work?

Answer 15

strapped to someones head and measures electrical activity in the brain

Question 16

what are benefits and shortcomings of EEG?

Answer 16

good timing information.

not good at providing location of activity

Question 17

being injected with a radioactive tracer that allows for a 3-D images of how the brain works using metabolic energy describes?

Answer 17

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Question 18

what are shortcomings of PET

Answer 18

limit to amount of radiation one can handle

Question 19

what does functional MRI measure

Answer 19

information about activity in the brain through metabolic changes in blood flow

Question 20

what are strengths and weaknesses in fmri

Answer 20

non-invasive, good at indicating location in brain

noisy

Question 21

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a form of ____ _____ and applies a ____ ____ ____

Answer 21

brain stimulation, focal magnetic field