PSYC 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Embodied Cognition, Parsing, Mental Rotation

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 364
• Professor: Stephan Kennepohl

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Part 1: definition of cognition & cognitive psychology, some of the history: Ebbinghaus & wundt: some of the problems with the study of cognition: Difference between computers and brains: types of models: Manipulation and output (reasoning, exec fx: two major types of data: Synapses & interconnections (hebbian circuit: neural representation: Population (network: cerebral (functional) organisation, cerebral dysfunction as a clue to understanding cognition: Lesions vs normal brains: distributed representations & emergence, functional geography model: Part 3: sensation vs perception, characteristics of perception: Personal: inherent complexity of perception: (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)se p(cid:396)oje(cid:272)tio(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)(cid:863) distortions invariance, bottom-up vs top-down (directionality of info, vision: (cid:862)seei(cid:374)g (cid:449)hat is(cid:374)"t the(cid:396)e(cid:863) Prosopagnosia: perceptual plasticity: (cid:862)tu(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) (cid:894)se(cid:374)siti(cid:448)e pe(cid:396)iods i(cid:374) de(cid:448)elop(cid:895) cultural/language differences, top-down processes, regularities in the environment, gestalt: Auditory vs visual perceptual variants: phonological processing (dysphonetic) Part 4: defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) & cha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)isti(cid:272)s of la(cid:374)guage (cid:894)u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sal, st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e, (cid:862)u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue (cid:271)ut sa(cid:373)e(cid:863)(cid:895), hierarchal nature: Phoneme discourse: semantics, syntax, progmatics, nature of psycholoinguistics: