PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Event, Behaviorism, Soltyrei

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

Interdisciplinary approach to studying the brain mechanisms that give rise to mental functions. The brain is sole organ of the mind: 2. Basic character and intellectual traits are innately determined: 3. Law of mass action: learning and memory (thinking and mental abilities) depend on the total mass of brain tissue remaining: 2. Imagine playing tennis for yes and walk to home for no = communication: show brain activity and know is conscious. Information can be broken down into elementary units: b. Hard to localize activity, broad effects of the stimulator, stimulation is limited to the surface of the brain (2cm deep) How to choose which tool to use: better to combine methods, depends on if want better spatial or temporal resolution. Pet and fmri rely on hemodynamic response - blood is an indirect and slow measure of neural activity and therefore these techniques have low temporal resolution.