Conditions and Oddities
the linking of two seperate forms of perception
what is synaesthesia?
The 46 year old and 19 year old who guided this class
Who are Calum & Sorcha
The category of animals which receive more legal protection for ethical purposes
What are vertebrates?
principle of not lying or distressing: "hand room"
What is 'Do no harm'
A feminist or a bank-teller, or maybe both?
Who is Linda/What is the Linda Problem?
A visual disorder that results in difficulties crossing the road and pouring a drink
what is Akinetopsia?
Created Heuristics & Biases theory
Who are Kahneman & Tversky?
The man who presented baby monkeys with two odd choices of mother
Who is Harry Harlow?
Chimps are best: "elysium vigor workman"
What is visual working memory?
A moral dilemma involving a train tracks thought to encourage a deontological response rather than a utilitarian one
What is the footbridge problem?
The inability to perceive tone
what is amusia?
The two types of photoreceptors in the eye
What are Rods and Cones?
Their navigation in mazes helped discover place and grid cells
What are rats
Rigorous looking inward: "Cistern Potion"
what is introspection?
A man who must decide to steal in order to save his wife
Inability to form new memories
What is anterograde memory?
Conducted the Baby Albert experiment
Who are Watson & Rayner?
What are pigeons?
only studying strange people: "limb powderer"
what is WEIRD problem?
The unfortunate neuroscientist trapped in a black and white box
Who is Marie the Colourblind Neuroscientist
a perceptual disorder that can affects the recognition of greebles, cars, dogs, and birds
what is prosopagnosia?
The two subsystem components of working memory?
What are the visuospatial sketchpad & the phonological loop?
What are greebles?
Doesn't worry about faces: "Boston Groin Incompetency"
what is Recognition by Components?
A dilemma involving two types of creatures and a river
What is the hobbits and orcs problem?