Summary Principles of cognitive neuroscience

A snapshot of the summary - Principles of cognitive neuroscience Author: Dale Purves ISBN: 9780878935734

• 1 Cognitive neuroscience: definition, themes and approaches

• Which two fields contain cognitive neuroscience?

  Neuroscience as well as cognitive science
• What does cognitive neuroscience seek to do?

  Measure cognitive abilities and behavior to understand how the human brain works at all levels

• 1.2 cognition

• Name why it is hard to understand an study cognition

  They arise too rapidly to be conscious and they occur automatically in the background of current processes

• 1.2.1 Natural philosophy and early psychology

• Who where the pioneers of psychology in nineteenth century

  Wilhelm Wundt
  Hermann von Helmholtz
  William James

• 1.2.2 Behaviorism

• Who where the most important names in behaviourism during the twentieth century?

  B.F. Skinner and John Watson
• Explain what operant conditioning does to rats

  Food rewards made rats more likely to engage in whatever behavior occurred immediately before the reward

• 1.2.3 Cognitive science

• What did George Miller found in the 1950's

  People are able to represent 7 unique items at one time this was called immediate memory
• What is the focus of cognitive science

  It focusses on information processing associated with cognitive participants (human and none), computational simulation of cognitive psychology, social psych, psychiatry etc.
• What are cognitive models trying to describe

  The underlying psychological processes

• 1.3 neuroscience

• What brain area where physicians interested in by the early nineteenth century?

  The cerebral cortex