PSYC 2650 Lecture 4: PSYCH 2650 LECTURE 4

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

* functional neuroimaging -> the most recent (fmri) investigation of what is happening in the brain during real time while they are performing a cognitive task. * cognitive neuropsychology: the study of consequences due to brain damage (language disorder ex:) Using the measure of time (chronometry) to make inferences about mental events. Reaction time (rt): time that elapses between onset of stimulus and response. Assumption: more stuff to do (more processing stages) the more time it will take ex: box processing (adding stages as to why it is taking you so long to do this task) Dutch ophthalmologist who developed ideas for mental chronology. The only methods we had back then were introspection and to improve upon this. No one ever read this and that"s why it took so long to rediscover this in the late 60"s. He was not fully appreciated by those around the world back then either.