PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Microelectrode, Color Constancy, Time Series
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Cognition (does not necessarily happen in the given order): acquire knowledge through sensory systems, organize & store info, use that info the guide decisions, problem solving, and behaviour. * what we subjectively experience is directly related to electrical activity in our brain. Mental representation: we can study mental processes, opposite to the view of original behaviourists, Visual cortex: area v1: most information from the thalamus goes to the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe, also known as area v1 or the striate cortex. If you close your eyes and imagine seeing something, activity increases in area v1 in a pattern similar to what happens when you actually see that object. Researchers found that a cortical cell that responds well to a single bar or line responds even more strongly to a sine wave grating of bars or lines. As such, most visual researchers now believe that neurons in area v1 detect spatial frequencies rather than bars or edges.
