Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Edgar Adrian, Golgi'S Method, Nerve Net
16 Sep 2016
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Chapter 2: cognitive neuroscience cognitive neuroscience: study of the physiological basis of cognition. Why study cognitive neuroscience? taking a physiological approach provides important insights into how the mind works. Pov of this book is that to understand how the mind works, we need to do both behavioural experiments and physiological experiments. Reasoning is based on idea of levels of analysis. Levels of analysis: idea that a topic can be studied in a number of different ways, with each approach contributing its own dimension to our understanding. Neurons: communication and representation brain appears to be static tissue, has no moving parts, doesn"t expand or contract and looks almost solid necessary to look within the brain and observe the small units neurons. When viewed this stained tissue under a microscope, saw a network they called a net nerve this network was believed to be continuous, the nerve net provided a complex pathway for conducting signals uninterrupted through the network.
