PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Positron Emission Tomography, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Neuropsychological Assessment
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Neuropsychology and the concept of intelligence: brain function is too complex to be. Communicated in a single score: historically, cognitive activity was often attributed to a single function, usually under the rubric of. Classes of cognitive functions: it is typically unclear, and in most cases virtually impossible, to demarcate a distinctive boundary where one function stops and the other begins. Sensory reception: sensory reception involves an arousal process that triggers central registration leading to analysis, encoding, and integrative activities, the organism receives sensation passively, the perception of sensations also depends heavily on attentional factors. Agnosias (literally, no knowledge: one basic dichotomy that has proven useful, at least at the heuristic level, is the distinction between. Forgetting: normal forgetting differs from amnesic conditions in that only amnesia involves the inaccessibility or nonrecording of large chunks of personal memories, the mechanism underlying normal forgetting is still unclear.
