Cognitive Neuroscience

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metabolic center of the neuron; it contains mechanisms to keep cell alive

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Cell body

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the branch out from the cell body is to receive signals from pther neurons

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Dendrites

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are usually long processes that transmit signals to other neurons

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Axons (Nerve Fibers)

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Small gap between the end pf neuron axon & densdrites

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Synapse

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this forms a groups amof interconnected neurons

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Neural circuits

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chemical messagers

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Neurotransmitters

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Fight or flight

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Adrenaline

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Concentration

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Noradrenaline

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Pleasure

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Dopamine

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Mood

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Serotonin

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Calming

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Gaba

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Learning

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Acetylcholine

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Memory

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Glutamate

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Euphoria

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Endorphins

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states that everything a person experience is based pn representations in the person’s nervous systems

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Principle of neural representation

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it responded to specific stimulus feastures such as orientation, movement, and length.

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Feature detectors neurons

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in which the structure of the brain in changed by experience

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Experience dependent plasticity

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specific finctions are served by specific areas of the brain.

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Localization of function

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the study of people’s behavior with brain damage

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neuropsychology

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the idea that the brain operated as an indivisible whole as opposed to specialized areas.

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cortical equipotentiality

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He published work based on his study of patoents who had sugfered brain damage due to stroke

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Paul Broca

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These strokes damages the frontal lobe

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Broca’s Area

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Patients with this problems— slow, labored, ungrammatical speech caused by damage to broca’s area

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Broca’s Aphasia

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He describe a number of patients who had damage to an area in their temporal lobe

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Carl Wernicke

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His patients produced speech that was fluent and grammatically correct but tend to be incoherent.

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Wernicke’s Aphasia

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it is responsible for perceptions of touch, pressure, and pain

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Parietal Lobe

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receives signals from all senses and is responsible for coordination of the senses, as well as higher cognitive functions like thinking and problem solving

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frontal lobe

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damage to temporal lobe on the lower right side of the brain. It has the inability to recognize faces.

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Prosopagnosia

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cognitions, be they perceptions from looking at something, pr process such as remembering or thinking, active numerous, sometimes widely separated, areas of the brain. ex. looking at a face

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Distributed Representation

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last fleetingly, for only about 10-15 seconds unless repeated over and over.

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short term memory

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memoroes for events in person’s life like remembering what you ate earlier

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Episodic memory

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memories for facts

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semantic memory

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3 types of memory

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visual, auditory, and olfactory

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Ate interconnected areas of the brain that can communicate with each other.

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Neural networks

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brains “wiring diagram” creatwd by nerve axons that connect different brain areas.

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structural connectivity