PSYC2300 Lecture 5: PSYC2300: Lecture 5: Neural Basis of Cognition and Methods for Studying the Brain
27 Jul 2018
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Cognitive science is interdisciplinary approach to studying the mind and its component processes. The birth of cognitive science: at the turn of 20th century, psychology was a nascent field. Reacting to inconsistent results of studies based on introspection with widely varying methods, behaviourism was born. Inconsistent results of studies that used wildly varying methods, the problem of introspection: a group of young, mainly american researchers advocated for change, behaviourism. Behaviourism = study only public behaviours, reflexes explain everything. Karl lashley - "the problem of serial order in behaviour" - the problem raised by the organisation of language seems to me to be a characteristic of almost all other cerebral activity. Lashley involved planning before production, he envisaged an active brain, not passive/reactive brain. The cognitive neuroscientist tries to understand what is occurring in the brain broadly by measuring by relating behaviour to brain activity. Single neurons are understood much better due to advances in science including:
