PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parallel Computing, Functional Neuroimaging, Decision-Making
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Cognitive psychology researchers in this field seek to explain behaviour by investigating mental processes and structures that cannot be observed directly (attention, learning, problem solving, memory, language, etc. ) The term cognition refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations. Also involves theoretical work involving computer simulation of the brain/mind. Brain: the physical organ composed of neurons (100 billion neurons with 100 trillion connections) The mind is to the brain as the program is to the hardware. Serial processing one step at a time, a series of steps in the program where each step has to be resolved in order for the program to move on to the next step.
