ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Temporal Lobe, Long-Term Memory, Grey Matter
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Neuroscientist someone who specializes in study of the human brain an eeg measures electrical activity in brain eusing electrodes which are placed on the scalp. Used to detect how much brain activity is occurring an fmri measures blood flow to certain areas of the brain. An increased blood flow to a certain part means oxygen is being brought to it, since the area is being used (experience patient to music, have patient do math, read etc. ) Perception is a person"s selecting, organizing, and interpreting of our senses filling in the gaps mind assumes missing info when the info given to brain isn"t complete. Perceptual constancy even though out view of an object changes as we move, the brain recognizes it as unchanged (as you move closer to object, becomes bigger but brain knows it"s same size) Perceptual sets the tendency to perceive one thing and not another.
