cognitive neuroscience Flashcards
dualism and the idea that the brain and mind are separate but can interact describes what?
interactionism
mental thoughts in the mind being the result of physical events in the brain describes what?
epiphenomenalism
what is a criticism of epiphenomenalism?
feeling emotions such as rage or stress can dictate your physical actions
the mind and the brain being two aspects of the same thing describes?
parallelism
there being no link between the brain and the mind but a similarity in structure describes what
isomorphism
the brain has modules that perform specific tasks describes what?
modularity of the mind hypothesis
what is phrenology
location of bumps on someones head indicates mental strengths and weaknesses
franz and lashley’s findings that the AMOUNT of brain damage and not the AREA of brain damage affects cognitive functions supports what?
brain plasticity
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 _______
law of mass action
law of equipotentiality
measuring activity in the body like in the peripheral system or skin conductance is what method at measuring how the brain supports cognition?
Psychophysiological Measurements
how does Neuropsychological Cases study how the brain supports cognition?
study brain function by comparing brain behaviour of brain damaged patients to healthy ones
the left hemisphere supports ___ and ____ while the right supports _____-____ _____
speech, language
visual-spatial processing
what is corpus callosum?
connection between two hemispheres
what do neuroimaging techniques do?
measure neural communication which is both chemical, electrical, and a metabolic event
how does electroencephalography (EEG) work?
strapped to someones head and measures electrical activity in the brain
what are benefits and shortcomings of EEG?
good timing information.
not good at providing location of activity
being injected with a radioactive tracer that allows for a 3-D images of how the brain works using metabolic energy describes?
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
what are shortcomings of PET
limit to amount of radiation one can handle
what does functional MRI measure
information about activity in the brain through metabolic changes in blood flow
what are strengths and weaknesses in fmri
non-invasive, good at indicating location in brain
noisy
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a form of ____ _____ and applies a ____ ____ ____
brain stimulation, focal magnetic field
