COGS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phonological Dyslexia, Language Disorder, Dyslexia
28 Aug 2018
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Cogs101, delusions and disorders of the mind and brain. * theoretical models of how the mind works. * topics: agnosia, amnesia, aphasia, autism, delusions, disorders of the self, dyslexia, modeling delusions with hypnosis, schizophrenia, specific language impairment (sli), synaesthesia. * abnormal performance level, eg dyslexia, specific language impairment. * acquired disorder: a cognitive abnormality in someone who acquired a particular skill normally but then lost that ability after brain damage. * developmental disorder: a cognitive abnormality in someone (often a child) who never acquired a particular skill normally in the first place. * biological/neural: eg genetic abnormality, damage to left temporal lobe. * cognitive: eg impairment in memory, language ability, belief evaluation. * behavioural: e. g. poor word reading, unable to produce long sentences, poor performance on false belief tasks. * cognitive level provides an important explanatory link between brain and behaviour. * explains what the brain is trying to achieve in functional terms (not structural)
