Intro to Brain
The four lobes in the brain
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes?
A range of processes relating to the acquisition, storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information
What is cognition?
Our senses, past experiences, and expectations
What is perception?
The name of the brain structure that's important for face processing (Case study #1)
What is the fusiform face area?
What are dendrites?
The study of behavior which is restricted to observable stimuli and responses
What is behaviorism?
___ processing is based entirely on environmental stimuli, while ___ processing is based upon prior knowledge and expectations.
What is bottom-up processing and top-down processing?
The most commonly used test to identify developmental prosopagnosia
Two types of tissues found in the CNS
What are gray matter and white matter?
An experiment where a rat was able to find cheese in a maze despite being positioned differently (study of cognitive maps)
What is Tolman's rat maze?
Perceiving the "most likely" situation based on our expectations
What is the "Likelihood Principle"?
The Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is crucial for ___.
A cell that releases neurotransmitters
This person is known for studying linguistics and how children learn through methods other than imitation and reinforcement
Who is Noam Chomsky?
As information moves down the sensory pathway, it becomes more ___.
What is detailed/complex?
The cognitive map that's based on remembering specific pathways (Article #1)
What are route-based cognitive maps?
The two main types of brain cells
What are neurons and glia?
The 3 models in cognitive sciences are ___, ___, and ___.
What are process models, structural models, and computational models?
A law that attempts to explain how we perceive visual information and unify it
What is Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization?
What is cognitive behaviorism?