PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Stanley Milgram, Caffeine, Chemical Substance
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After 1960, neuroscience related brain activity to sleeping, dreaming & other mental states. Studied consciousness altered by hypnosis and drugs. Consciousness - or awareness of ourselves and our environment. Allowing us to assemble info from sources as we reflect on the past and plan for future. Today, biology figures that consciousness offers a reproductive advantage. States that occur spontaneously: daydreaming, drowsiness & dreaming. Some that are physiologically induced: hallucinations, orgasms, food/oxygen starvation. Some that are psychologically induced: sensory deprivation, hypnosis, meditation. Cognitive neuroscience - the inter-disciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory & language) A lady in a car accident showing no signs of outward consciousness, was asked to imagine playing tennis, her mind remained active. Cognitive neuroscientists mapping conscious functions of the cortex. If a stimulus activates enough brain activity with strong signals in one area triggering activity elsewhere, it crosses a threshold for consciousness.