Neurons
Neural cells that fire when observing someone else's behaviour.
What are mirror neurons?
A neural processing pathway that consists of visual areas 4 and 8, as well as temporal lobe areas, such as parahippocampal place area and fusiform face area.
What is the ventral stream?
A theory describing attention by a horse-race metaphor.
What is TVA?
"We are afraid of the bear because we ran away from it"
What is the James-Lange theory (of emotion)?
A railway foreman who suffered brain damage from a metal rod in a work-related accident.
Who was Phineas Gage?
The cortical area Hubel and Wiesel recorded neural responses from.
What is the (cat's) primary visual cortex?
A brain network originating in the ventral tegmental area, projecting to the nucleus accumbens from where it has extensive projections to the cortex.
What is the reward system?
A theory claiming that we use an interpretation of our bodily response when chosing to how to act.
What is the Two-Factor (Schachter/Singer) theory (of emotion)? or:
What is the Somatic Marker theory?
"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"
What is the capacity of short-term memory?
A small boy who took part in the first (probably unethical) experiment on fear conditioning.
Who was Little Albert?
A type of neurons forming the basis of colour perception.
What are cones?
A brain network consisting of thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, and many more brain regions.
What is the limbic system?
A theory describing bistable perception (e.g. Rubin Vase).
What is figure-ground segregation?
"What fires together, wires together"
What is Hebb's (learning) rule?
Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize and husband of Anne Treisman.
Who is Daniel Kahneman?
A strengthened neural response after applying several high-frequency stimulus trains in the presynaptic neuron.
What is long-term potentiation?
A brain network consisting of an anterior attention system, a posterior attention system, and a reticular arousal system.
What is Posner and Peterson's attention system?
A theory involving two normal distributions and a response criterion.
"The whole is more (different) than the sum of its parts"
What is Gestalt Psychology?
The father of of Inge Lehmann but also of experimental psychology in Copenhagen.
Who was Alfred Lehmann?
Sensory cells for auditory perception.
What are hair cells?
A network including the parietal lobules, the premotor cortex, and the somatosensory cortex.
What is the Christmas spirit network? :)
A theory claiming that visual search happens in parallel or serial, depending on whether attention is needed to perform the search.
What is Feature Integration Theory?
"Simple heuristics that make us smart"
What is the adaptive toolbox?
According to a 2002 APA study, the most eminent* psychologist of the 20th century.
(*based on citations and surveys)
Who was B. F. Skinner?