CGSC 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psycholinguistics, Starbucks, Basal Ganglia

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

Animal mind: world > perception > senses > brain > body, action. Robotics: world > perception > sensors >actuators > actions. Disembodied software: user input > perception > updating database > amazon"s recommender system > display to screen (action) Distributed cognition: world > sensors, sensory organs > people and artefacts > actions. Sensory memory: it"s like a scratch pad (for vision), or a bit of recording tape (for hearing), that can be overwritten with new things. It is re-written every few seconds by new perceptions. Short term memory: temporary store, some things from it end up becoming long term memories. Long term memory: stored here forever, might have trouble with retrieval. The hippocampus appears to be important for transforming short term into long- term memories: if hippocampus is removed or damaged, you will not be able to store new long-term memories. Procedural memory appears to happen in the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and the motor cortex.