COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Boolean Algebra, Connectionism, Occipital Lobe
27 Oct 2014
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Cogs 100 - introduction to cognitive science - lecture 17: representations: images and. Decision making: which outfit to select by imaging how it would look on you. Form mental images of the operational steps and to come up with an explanation usually complementary to verbal reasoning and not a replacement. Learning: game playing, learning by generalization (features of an animal) Language: learning letters in the language; many metaphors in language are visual she"s on top of her job . Put a circle under the letter y, add a horizontal line half way up and rotate it 180 degrees, the result is a human stick figure. Kosslyn (1994b) presents evidence that parts of the brain use in visual perception are also used in visual mental imagery. Patients with brain damage (occipital lobe) that causes deficit in visual perception sometimes have similar imagery deficit.
