COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sensory Neuron, Visual System
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Cogs100: introduction to cognitive science - lecture 10: cognitive behaviour. Idea was that if we could describe this relation for some intelligent behaviour, then we would have described the intelligence that is involved. Cognitive scientist, believe that it is not so much the behaviour, but rather the process that needed to be understood. Stimulus thought, attitudes, consciousness, language response (perception) reasoning, attention, memory, actions (action) Of great interest is also how the processes of intelligent behaviour are organized and interacted with each other. All the processes access memory without conscious intervention, yet by applying attention, consciousness may (though memory) influence these processes. Vision and perception there is a process of perception that selects the locations at which your eyes fixates but all the time it is accomplished without direct control of conscious. Perception: sensory receptors (vision, speech, meaning and knowledge of world, mental processes, coordination among mental processes.