PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iconic Memory, Phineas Gage, Sensory Memory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Mc Colemanand Kleffner

Document Summary

Cognitive science: a new term designating the study of cognition from the multiple standpoints of psychology, linguistics, computer science and neuroscience. The standard theory is an example of the strict information processing approach (specifically about memory): how memory works to provide information and how it serves cognition. Information processing: some info comes in, subjected to processing, an output comes out: strict information processing: sequential sequence the standard theory is an example of the strict information processing approach because, sequential stages of processing. Lesion studies: studying people (animals) before and after brain lesions to see the impact of that damage on function (e. g. strokes, phineas gage, split brain) Dissociation: a disruption in one component of mental functioning but no impairment of another. Double dissociation: evidence of opposite patterns of disruption and preserved function, suggests that the cognitive processes are functionally anatomically separate: the goal of double dissociation is to find individual phenomenon.