PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Diffusion Mri, Implicit-Association Test, Barack Obama
6 Dec 2017
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1 interact with and influence each other: believed interaction took place in pineal gland functioning, has no causal role in determining behaviour, action can precede conscious experience of the decision to act. Interactionism (descartes) mind and brain are separate substances that: epiphenomenalism (huxley) mind is a superfluous by-product of bodily, parallelism (fechner) mind and brain are two aspects of the same reality, Study of brain injuries fixated at point a disappears from view potentially but not surely activates superior colliculus: broca"s aphasia deficit in the ability to produce speech as a result of damage to broca"s area. 2: unable to speak but able to understand. Event-related potentials: take the average of electrical responses to a stimulus, limitation: it is not easy to determine cognitive processes that underlie them. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri: mri provides structural info, but does not indicate what areas of the brain.
