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cognitive neuroscience definition

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  • the study of how the brain gives rise to the mind (the link between brain function and cognition)
  • cognitive neuroscience—from cognition, or the process of knowing (i.e., what arises from awareness, perception, and reasoning),
  • neuroscience (the study of how the nervous system is organized and functions).
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cognitive neuroscience involves

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–includes: sensation and perception, attention, memory, emotion, language, social cognition, and consciousness

-multi-disciplinary area of study combining knowledge from cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, genetics, neuroanatomy, neurology/psychiatry, computer science, behavioral economics, and statistics

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is the mind enabled by the whole brain working together (holism) or is the mind enabled by specialized parts of the brain working fairly independently (localzationism)?

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  • both
  • there are specialized parts of the brain that do specialized activities

-but in general the brain works together to get the whole processing power

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describe Golgi’s work

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developed one of the most famous cell stains in the history of the world

  • would stain an individual neuron without staining the neurons around it
  • This stain permits visualization of individual neurons in their entirety.
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describe Ramon Y Cajal’s work …what did he tell us about neurons?

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-father of neuroscience

was the first to identify that the nervous system is made up of individual cells using Golgi’s stain

-recognized that the transmission of electrical information went in only one direction, from the dendrites down to the axonal tip

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what has enabled modern cognitive neuroscientists to study how the brain enables the mind?

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-technology

  • EEG
  • CT
  • PET
  • MRI
  • fMRI