COG SCI 190 Lecture Notes - Pineal Gland, Cerebellum
13 Apr 2014
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Neurons, somehow : caveat, marr"s framework says we investigate the different levels independently of each other, assumption that could lead us astray, top down v. bottom up, dualism 17th century descartes, mind body problem. The mind causes the body to act: descartes" solution: pineal gland, gall and phrenology: segmented mapping of the brain for functions, lombroso: criminal type, how is the brain actually organized, new to old (cid:224) forebrain to midbrain to hindbrain, corpus callosum connects hemispheres, diencephalon thalamus pituitary, pineal, midbrain primitive sensory/motor, cerebellum, pons and medulla the hindbrain (responsible for balance, posture, some motor control) Discovered parietal cortex is highly involved with spatial cognition and it receives most of its info from the visual cortex in the same hemisphere: two cortical visual systems ungerleider & mishkin, dorsal stream where, ventral stream what, tracing the dorsal pathway, landmark task, chain of reasoning.
