PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Backward Masking, Ebbinghaus Illusion, Advertising Age
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Different areas of the brain support different functions. Mental processes are due to the activity of the brain as a whole, and not individual parts. The mind and brain are separate entities that interact and influence each other. The mind and brain are two aspects of the same reality. The correspondence between mind and brain is structural. Methods in neurosciences used to study the link between the mind and the brain. Pet: use of radioactive tracers in scanner fmri: good spatial resolution. Meg: temporal and spatial resolution, but the signal decays. Presented praise and neutral words in positive and neutral tones to dogs in a scanner. Left: processed meaning of words (praise vs. neutral words) Right: processed emotional content (positive vs. negative tone) Something to think about when we look at research: sample size is important. We cannot interpret these findings and generalize to all dogs. The basic sensory and perceptual equipment of vision.
