PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Brain, Cyberculture, Explicit Memory
14 Oct 2015
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The human experimental study of cognitive abilities in humans and animals. Learning, memory, attention, problem solving, language and applied cognition. Although not human it is human inspired it is copying ourselves and taking it in another direction. The brain is the best computer on earth and way more powerful than the worlds best super computer. Can look at potential power in the brain by the neurons pathways and connections. We behave like a computer with memory and language and input and output. We have eyes and ears while computers have a mouse and keyboard, social networks humans had before computers - neurons connected to each other. Ibm and stanford have the neuro-chip technology - siri has a slight neuro-chip to hear your words better it is modeled on the human brain and is called the deep belief network. It is inspired on how things are arranged in the brain and then it is paralleled.
