PSYC 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reflex Arc, Anterograde Amnesia, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Fmri and pet they both pick up activity across the entire brain, both indirectly measure brain activity eeg has better temporal measurement. fmri is not directly measuring the firing of neurons, eeg directly measures neuron activity. Slide 10 start craft study, done at sfu. Key points that they found in the study they looked at many different variables what they found was that variable importance is not static across levels of expertise! And the way they determined this was using novel data. Talent when we are using it in everyday speech we say someone is talented when they are good at a skill than everyone else. In more formal sense the ability to become an expert with little effort. The idea of talent translates in a modern view something in your genes that makes you better at something such as height, for some sports this is needed for good skills. Height is perceived to be a good relationship abilities.