PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hebbian Theory, Neural Coding, Classical Conditioning
6 Feb 2014
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Maybe the world is not actually as we see it. Experiencing a virtual world and the machines are taking over. Are you living in a computer simulation by nick bolsom. The matrix: the brain constructs your world, brain- made of neurons and metabolically functioning organ, heuristics and prior knowledge: so many people got it wrong. Because of this assumption, we think that a and b are two different colors although they are not. This is an example of the brain constructing our world: we use a process called hebbian learning which provides a mechanism for neural coding. There is an actual physical connection between neurons that fire together. In classical conditioning, the neurons for cs and us become physically connected: phantom limb syndrome: (physical stimulus is no longer present), they still experience their left although someone has lost their hands hand moving.
