PSYC 213 Chapter 2: Cognition chapter 2.pdf
6 Feb 2014
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The goal of cognitive neuroscience is to discover the brain mechanisms that give rise to human mental functions such as language,attention and memory. Modules the section of the brain,each which is responsible for particular cognitive operation. The brain as the organ of the mind: He created the term phrenology to study the shape,size and protrusions of the cranium in an attempt to discover the relation of parts of the brain to various mental activities and abilities. It simply means that there is a strict one to one correspondence between specific cognitive functions and specific parts of the brain. Ablation a method whereby parts of the cortex of an animal are destroyed the results observed. Study of the effects of ablation of the frontal roots in rats(1890) . Laws of mass action learning and memory depend on the total mass of brain tissue remaining rather than the properties of individual cells.
