PSY270H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Computational Neuroscience, Simple Math, Cognitive Neuroscience
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In these kinds of tasks, computers can vastly outperform humans, carrying out millions or billions of calculations in a second while you are still trying to remember to carry the one. In the past decade, the dominant form of machine learning uses techniques that are modeled on the brain: artificial neural networks, some theorists have proposed that true human-like artificial general intelligence will arrive within the next few decades. Chapter 2: how to study cognition: controversy between studying the physical brain for cognition or the intelligent behavior the brain produces. Investigation of the neural processes underlying cognition in active, healthy brains: many methods to measure brain activity, electroencephalography or eeg, measures the electrical activity of the active brain that travels through the scalp. Limitations of cognitive neuroscience: they can only tell us something about where and when certain functions are carried out in the brain not how.
