PSYC*3270 Week 13 Flashcards
What is social neuroscience?
The study of how the brain mediates social processes and behaviour
T or F: Normal brain function doesn’t necessarily depend on social interaction.
False
T or F: Chimps and human babies don’t have the cognitive capacity to show a preference for prosocial behaviour.
False
What are two neurological correlates of social exclusion and deprivation?
- ACC activation patterns
- Limbic system volume
What is volitional evolution?
Refers to a species determining its own evolutionary own fate
What is sensory substitution?
Refers to feeding sensory information through unusual sensory channels
What does sensory substitution demonstrate about the brain’s ability to interpret data?
The brain can take whatever data it is given and figure out what to make of it
What is the device that converts camera pixels into electrical pulses on the tongue?
The BrainPort
What is the variable extra-sensory transducer (VEST)?
A wearable device that converts data streams into dynamic patterns of vibration across the torso
When the brain is clinically dead and/or the body has experiences irreversible cessation of respiration and circulation, is the person considered legally or biologically dead?
Legally dead
For the brain to be declared dead, must occur?
All activity must have ceased in the cortex
Is a person considered legally or biologically dead when, in the absence of intervention, the cells throughout the body die?
Biologically dead
What is the connectome?
The unique pattern of quadrillion connections between brain cells
What is an electron micrograph?
A picture that represents a segment of brain magnified one hundred thousand times
What is the research project with the mission to collect data from neuroscience laboratories worldwide to achieve a simulation of a brain that uses detailed neurons?
The human brain project
What is the computational hypothesis of the brain?
The idea that biological matter isn’t critical for consciousness, but it’s the computations being implemented
T or F: According to the computational hypothesis of the brain, the brain should, theoretically, be able to run on any substrate.
True
According to the computational hypothesis of the brain, would a simulation of the brain be considered an individual being?
Yes
What did Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argue about the mind?
That matter alone could never produce the mind
What did Giulio Tononi suggest about consciousness?
A conscious system requires the perfect balance between differentiation and integration
Does the complexity to represent different states imply differentiation or integration?
Differentiation
Does the connectivity to have distant parts of the network be in tight communication with one another imply differentiation or integration?
Integration
What is the major technical hurdle to uploading consciousness?
The simulated brain must be able to modify itself
