NEUR 4306 Lecture Notes - Vise, Motor Skill, Mental Rotation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 4306
• Professor: kim hellemans

Document Summary

Part iii of the course will consist of four lectures: lecture 09: representation of knowledge, lecture 10: mental imagery, lecture 11: comprehension: written language, lecture 12: applied cognition. Study of peoples member for verbal information (words, nonsense variables) people are not good at this: in contrast when looking at memory of non-verbal information, memory is good. Lvf (rh) > rvf (lh: suggests: verbal and nonverbal stimuli processed using different codes & different brain structures. Dual-coding theory: argued that there are 2 ways that we can represent or code information. Suggested that he tyeps of codes we use depends on 3 thigns. Some is conducive ot be coded verbally or non-verbally. The persons abilities verbally and non-verbally verbal (left hemisphere) Visual images (right hemisphere) two ways to represent (code) information type of code used will depend on: nature of information task individual differences in people.