PSYC3272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Matter, Putamen, Mental Chronometry
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An attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, implied, or imagined presence of others. The study of mental processes such as thinking, perceiving, speaking, acting and planning. The notion that certain cognitive processes (or regions of the brain) are restricted in the type of information they process and the type of processing carried out. The idea that a cognitive process (or brain region) is specialised for processing only one particular kind of information. One type of explanation will become replaced with another, more basic type of explanation over time. An attempt to infer the nature of cognitive processes from neuroscience (neuroimaging) data. The idea that the brain learns environmental contingencies without imposing any biases, constraints, or pre-existing knowledge on that learning. There are various ways in which a social brain could be implemented. At one level there may be domain-specific routines that evolved for serving specific functions.
