PSYC59H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hebbian Theory, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Phenotype
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Erp (event related potentials) fail to tell us the exact origins of the brain. Fmri using dogs: they found that dogs can understand speech intonations processed in their rh, words processes in the lh. There is difference in monkeys and human brains that suggest semantics are processed very differently. Meg: good temporal and spatial resolution, combing the best of all words, with recording mag. Field of the brain generated by neurons created by axon chemicals. However, it is more expensive than fmri, and you have to be in a very silent room that cost around 4k to buy w/o the machine. Speech is a soundwave sound transmitted into ear drums choclea more sophisticated brain regions that process speech, brain is able to pick up on phonemes (vowels). Its much harder for japanese native speakers to learn english, as the don"t two distinct phenotypical categories for perceiving r and l sounds like we do in english.
