PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brain Injury, Head Injury, Morris Water Navigation Task

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

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Lecture 3 the mind & brain and cognitive neuroscience. The field of psychology that examines the brain mechanisms that give rise to mental functions: physiological basis of cognition to understand a topic like cognition, we need to look at it using different levels of analysis. Measure someone"s behaviour, but also what might be responsible for that behaviour. Smells a hamburger: chemicals stimulated neurons activated brain area activated recover a past. Levels of analysis experience have a memory. Last class: we actively select information from out perceptual world, information is processed as a means to reduce uncertainty, processing this information has limits. Example of two processing models: broadbent"s filter model of attention, waugh and norman"s model of memory. Gibson"s and neisser"s ecological approached to cognition: study how we think in the real world. Two broad views of the mind-brain link: one that supports functional specialization, one that opposes functional specialization brain activity as a whole.