LING 3Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lateral Sulcus, Cardiac Output, Myelin
15 Jan 2016
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Some cognitive capacities different from animals: emotion, memory, Certain mental processes can be located in or associated with discrete parts. Assumptions to questions regarding cognitive capacities (what are the mental processes that humans are capable of) Notion of functional localization (finding where things work in the brain. When something is happening, can we localize it?) of the brain language, learning, planning, reading and writing, reasoning and logic, emotional intelligence, visual and auditory processing, Paul broca addressed the anthropological society of paris in 1861. Broca: more papers till 1865, dropped out in 1871 focused on anthropology. Contrast between horizontal (non modular) vs vertical (modular) faculties. The feeling of math module vs language module etc doesn"t feel different. Can talk about them independent of one another. Language, vision, sound, smell, touch (they are vertical and all connect to higher horizontal notion general problem solver) We assume that particular parts of the brain are responsible for certain modules.
