NEUR30003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Two-Streams Hypothesis, Termite, Internment Of Japanese Americans
13 Aug 2020
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Promiscuous interfaces (eg. washing hair (recursive) can be doing in many domains: generalize skills to use in other areas. Mode setting (reorient brain into range of thoughts and behaviours) Progression about sophistication in how we manipulate the material world. Levallios tools show extraordinary amount of cognitive activity because they are hard to make (has to be learnt) and the stone has to be to an intermediate state that is not the final solution. Recognizing tools: first recognized as objects ventral stream. Imagination around tool use: intended purposes vs. what you could do with it vs. what you could combine it with: practical solutions require practical creativity, activation of prefrontal regions. Ba 44/45: known to be activated in object naming (broca"s area: organizes not just language, but organizes body movements in relation to motor learning and communication. Knowledge held in area 47 (what you have and what you can do with it)
