PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional Neuroimaging, Cognitive Psychology
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This course is concerned with the study of the human mind, with a focus on the methods used by cognitive psychologists to understand how the brain gives rise to the mind. This is an inter- disciplinary area that represents an attempt by cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, linguists, and philosophers to discover how mental processes are implemented in the brain. The approach focuses on human cognitive processes, and relies heavily on the methods and findings of neuroscience, in that the brain is used as a constraint on how models of the mind must be designed. Our focus will be on the contributions of cognitive psychology, but we will sample methods and theories from the other related fields as appropriate. This kind of research receives extensive coverage in the media (e. g. , brain scanning of cognitive function, the implications of talking/texting while driving, financial decision making, etc.
