Week2-Cog Neuro Flashcards
1
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Cog Neuroscience
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Study of physiological basis of cognition
2
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Level of anaylsis
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Study topic in diff ways, different dimension of understanding
3
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Principle of neural representation
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Everything a person experiences is represented in nervous system
4
Q
Feature detectors
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Neurons respond to specific stimuli (orientation, movement, length)
5
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Experience-dependent plasticity
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Brain structure changed by experience
6
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Sensory code
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How neurons represent characteristics of environment.
7
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Broca’s aphasia
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Slow laboured, ungrammatical speech
