Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Distributed Computing, Spreading Activation, Parallel Algorithm

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner- Wilger

Document Summary

Hardware (brain, computer) less important than the software. We didn"t really know enough about how the brain works. New methods for brain research increasing knowledge (pet, mri, fmri) X goes from left to right (0 is in the middle moving to the right is positive larger values, left is negative larger values. Y is front to back (move towards the front of the brain its larger positive values, moving towards the back of the brain it is larger negative values) Z top to bottom(top is positive larger values, bottom is negative larger values) *need to be able to identify where coordinates would be in the brain. Parietal lobe (carved up in terms of structure) *need to know these structures and the structure of a neuron (don"t need to know what they do) in the windows of the mind and brain reading. Based on cytoarchitecture (based on structure but more precise than just frontal occipital etc. )