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cognitive neuroscience Flashcards

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what is cognitive neuroscience?

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study of influence of brain structures on mental processes

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what are examples of brain imagery technology?

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● fMRI

● PET

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what is function of broca’s area?

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important to speech

any damage impairs speech

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what is the function of the prefrontal cortex?

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episodic and semantic memory

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what is the function of the parahippocampal gyrus?

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processing unpleasant emotions - link to OCD

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explain brain fingerprinting

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● development in brain mapping techniques

● future application of this could be to analyse brain wave patterns of eyewitnesses to determine whether they are lying or not

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