PSY 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Axon Terminal, Fusiform Face Area, Brain Damage
2 Jul 2019
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Cognitive neuroscience: how cognition is realized in the brain. Turning to the brain helps us grapple with the challenge of identifiability. Specifying the correct combination of representations and processes used to accomplish a task. Also useful for comparing findings to one another. Neuroscience data can help us test the adequacy of a cognitive theory. Provides strong justification and support for a theory. Patients with capgras are able to recognize familiar faces but believe these people are imposters. Don"t have the warm feelings they had toward people after an accident. Brain damage associated with capgras syndrome includes the amygdala. Another damaged region is the right prefrontal cortex. Hypothesis testing in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience complement each other. New hypothesis: amygdala is important for other aspects of emotional memory. Different parts of the brain do different jobs. We can learn about cognition by studying patients with lesions to the brain. At rest, neurons are negatively charged inside.
