PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Necker Cube, Karl Lashley, Cognitive Neuroscience
8 Sep 2016
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Cognitive neuroscience: the marriage of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Goal is to discover brain mechanisms that give rise to human mental functions; language, memory, and attention. Cognitive neuroscientists must assume that the mind is composed of specific parts: modules: sections of the brain, each of which is responsible for particular cognitive operations. The brain as the organ of the mind. Franz joseph gall (1758-1828); and his student j. g. Phrenology: study of the shape, size and protrusions of the cranium in an attempt to discover the relation of parts of the brain to various mental activities and abilities. Their method for locating functions in the brain was highly speculative: believed that the more highly developed a function, the larger it would be; the more it would manifest itself as a protrusion on the skull. The underlying hypothesis that specific functions are localized in specific parts of the brain has guided much subsequent research.
