PSYC*3270 Week 13

Question 1

What is social neuroscience?

Answer 1

The study of how the brain mediates social processes and behaviour

Question 2

T or F: Normal brain function doesn’t necessarily depend on social interaction.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

T or F: Chimps and human babies don’t have the cognitive capacity to show a preference for prosocial behaviour.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What are two neurological correlates of social exclusion and deprivation?

Answer 4

• ACC activation patterns
• Limbic system volume

Question 5

What is volitional evolution?

Answer 5

Refers to a species determining its own evolutionary own fate

Question 6

What is sensory substitution?

Answer 6

Refers to feeding sensory information through unusual sensory channels

Question 7

What does sensory substitution demonstrate about the brain’s ability to interpret data?

Answer 7

The brain can take whatever data it is given and figure out what to make of it

Question 8

What is the device that converts camera pixels into electrical pulses on the tongue?

Answer 8

The BrainPort

Question 9

What is the variable extra-sensory transducer (VEST)?

Answer 9

A wearable device that converts data streams into dynamic patterns of vibration across the torso

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

Legally dead

Question 11

For the brain to be declared dead, must occur?

Answer 11

All activity must have ceased in the cortex

Question 12

Is a person considered legally or biologically dead when, in the absence of intervention, the cells throughout the body die?

Answer 12

Biologically dead

Question 13

What is the connectome?

Answer 13

The unique pattern of quadrillion connections between brain cells

Question 14

What is an electron micrograph?

Answer 14

A picture that represents a segment of brain magnified one hundred thousand times

Question 15

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?

Answer 15

The human brain project

Question 16

What is the computational hypothesis of the brain?

Answer 16

The idea that biological matter isn’t critical for consciousness, but it’s the computations being implemented

Question 17

T or F: According to the computational hypothesis of the brain, the brain should, theoretically, be able to run on any substrate.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

According to the computational hypothesis of the brain, would a simulation of the brain be considered an individual being?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

What did Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argue about the mind?

Answer 19

That matter alone could never produce the mind

Question 20

What did Giulio Tononi suggest about consciousness?

Answer 20

A conscious system requires the perfect balance between differentiation and integration

Question 21

Does the complexity to represent different states imply differentiation or integration?

Answer 21

Differentiation

Question 22

Does the connectivity to have distant parts of the network be in tight communication with one another imply differentiation or integration?

Answer 22

Integration

Question 23

What is the major technical hurdle to uploading consciousness?

Answer 23

The simulated brain must be able to modify itself