PSYCH261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Visual Cortex, Flash Suppression, Backward Masking
28 Nov 2015
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Mind-body/brain problem (what is the relationship between the mind and the brain?) Dualism (belief that mind and body are different kinds of substance that exist independently) Mind and brain interact at a single point in space (pineal gland smallest unpaired structure in the brain) Monism (belief that the universe consists of only one kind of substance) Materialism (view that everything that exists is material/physical mental events don"t exist at all) Mentalism (view that only the mind really exists and that the physical world could not exist unless some mind were aware of it) Easy problem (the difference between wakefulness and sleep and what brain activity occurs during consciousness) Hard problem (concerns why consciousness exists at all) Conscious (cooperative person reports awareness of a stimulus) One condition, expect observer to be conscious of it second condition, expect observer to be unconscious of it. Masking (brief visual stimulus is preceded and followed by a longer interfering stimuli)
