Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience

Question 1

What’s the difference between Dualism and Monism

Answer 1

Dualism means that mind and brain work independently opposed to Monism.

Question 2

What does the Res extensa and Res cogitans refer to?

Answer 2

Res extensa refers to the body and res cogitans to mind.

Question 3

Who was a fan of Holism and ablation studies?

Answer 3

Fluorens! He was cutting the brain piece by piece to explore it’s functions.

Question 4

What are Lesion studies useful for?

Answer 4

Nothing if you ask me, but in Prashanti’s words: Lesion studies are useful to study modularity of cognitive function and establish double dissociation

Question 5

Who was a fan of Phrenology?

Answer 5

Franz Gall. He thought that each region in brain is responsible for each process (like emotion or language). He also thought that cognitive development reflected the form of the skull :( shame

Question 6

What did Broca do?

Answer 6

Probably a lot but most importantly first demonstration of functional localization in human brain (language center/Broca’s center)

Question 7

Who created visual field maps and said, that depending on the damaged brain region you could map the corresponding visual deficit?

Answer 7

Gordon Holmes. He was conducting his studies on soldiers with brain damage.

Question 8

What’s equipotentiality?

Answer 8

Brain ability to compensate the loss of function in one region with another region.

Question 9

Who’s Wilder Penfield and was he really that wild?

Answer 9

He came up with motor and sensor homunculi and also did direct brain stimulation, which is pretty wild.