PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Cognitive Reserve
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Language in brain: broca (speech production, in frontal lobe) & wernicke (speech comprehension, temporal lobe) Aphasia: impairment affecting production and/or comprehension of speech. Advantages in executive control, contributes to cognitive reserve. Representation: anything that stands in for/correspond to something else. Mental representation: hypothetical internal cognitive symbol, represents external reality. Categorization: process of grouping things based on shared info. Concept; mental representation that groups objects, events, relations about common themes. Classical categorization: objects categorized according to certain set of rules/features. Prototype model: according to how closely they resemble prototype/best example of category.
