PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC2013
• Professor: Fiona White

Document Summary

Cognitive processes are central to understanding many domains of human behaviour. Cognitive processes cannot be observed cognitive research and theory uses metaphors and methods drawn from many domains (ex: computer metaphor, neural metaphor) Cognitive processes happens in the brain, but. So do lots of other things hard to identify what"s specific to cognition. We can understand a lot about the mind without knowing its neural basis. Investigating cognition requires the use of converging methods. Cognitive theories/models provide a functional level of description that can be used to integrate the evidence obtained from these different methods. Memory can be defined in terms of both its content, and the processes involved in storage and retrieval. There appear to be different kinds of memory. Short term (stm) and long term memory (ltm) are different structures with different properties. Challenged by evidence that semantic information in ltm influences performance in stm tasks. Interactive models of memory replace stm with working memory".