PSYC3016 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Arch Linux, Lev Vygotsky, Temporal Lobe
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I"m in a restaurant, i should behaviour like i do in other restaurants: allows novel experiences to be understood through induction, dogs bark. There is a dog, it probably barks: there is a common reference, building blocks of more complex knowledge structure/reasoning. We have mental drawers that have individual categories, apply our memories to situations. Linda smith: see-think-act paradigm rejected, concepts are the think part, there is a continuous neural activation, no discrete information, continuous levels of similarity, stimulus doesn"t activate the same neurons, everything is different, you just have sensory explorations. Can learn to: random: every new stimulus that network has to process over adjusts to integrate yet be stable at the same time, modules: independent streams. Multisensory integration in the brain: anterior temporal lobe: word meaning. The visual cliff objects with that property: birds and babies don"t understand transparent solid objects, babies acquire abstract concept of transparent solids through handling.
