PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Extrastriate Body Area, Fusiform Face Area

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Cognitive neuroscience: discover brain mechanisms responsible for learning, memory, attention. The brain is located at the top of the body to maximize reception of the world. Cholinergic pathway: involved in memory/learning damage = alzheimer"s. Dopaminergic pathway: involved in motor and behavioral functions and reward driven learning. Serotonergic pathway: involved in hunger, sleep, happiness damage = schizophrenia, ocd, ticks. We need the brain to make movements (hard to study movement of noisy feedback) Interactionism: mind (non-physical) and brain (physical) are separate and interact with each other (descartes) not popular. Epiphenomenalism: mind is a by-product of brain activity (huxley) Brain can cause change in the mind but mind can"t control the brain mind doesn"t control behaviour (mind is like a shadow) Parallelism: mind and brain are two aspects of the same reality and flow in parallel (fechner) Every event in the mind is accompanied by an event in the brain. Can study mental activity to understand the brain.

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