PSYB55H3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wilder Penfield, Visual Cortex, Vertebrate
PSYB55H3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Key concepts
Discover the origins of cognitive neuroscience and how it has
developed into what it is today
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Discuss some of the scientists and physicians who have made
important contributions in this field
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Thomas Willis (Anne Green's)
Linked specific brain damage to specific behavioral deficits
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Amongst the first to theorize how the brain transfers information in
what would later be called neuronal conductional
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Foreshadowed cognitive neuroscience with the notion that isolated
brain damage (biology) could affect behavior (psychology)
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George A. Miller
Cognitive psychologists
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Came up with the term cognitive neuroscience--> from cognition, or
the process of knowing (i.e. what arises from awareness,
perception, and reasoning) and neuroscience (the study of how the
nervous system is organized and functions)
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The brain is built through the process of evolution
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Primate brain appeared between 34 million and 23 million years ago
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Take a evolutionary perspective (why might this behavior have
evolved? How could it promote survival and reproduction)
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Franz Joseph Gall
Expanded on Willis's ideas
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Young Austrian physician and neuroanatomist
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Convinced that the brain was the organ of the mind and that innate
faculties were localized in specific regions of the cerebral cortex
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Chapter(1:(Foundations(of(Cognitive(Neuroscience
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Document Summary
Discover the origins of cognitive neuroscience and how it has developed into what it is today. Discuss some of the scientists and physicians who have made important contributions in this field. Linked specific brain damage to specific behavioral deficits. Amongst the first to theorize how the brain transfers information in what would later be called neuronal conductional. Foreshadowed cognitive neuroscience with the notion that isolated brain damage (biology) could affect behavior (psychology) Came up with the term cognitive neuroscience--> from cognition, or the process of knowing (i. e. what arises from awareness, perception, and reasoning) and neuroscience (the study of how the nervous system is organized and functions) The brain is built through the process of evolution. Primate brain appeared between 34 million and 23 million years ago. Convinced that the brain was the organ of the mind and that innate faculties were localized in specific regions of the cerebral cortex.
