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• 1 Cognitive neuroscience: definition, themes and approaches

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• Which two fields contain cognitive neuroscience?

  Neuroscience as well as cognitive science

• What does cognitive neuroscience seek to do?

  Measure cognitive abilities and behavior to understand how the human brain works at all levels

• 1.2 cognition

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• Name why it is hard to understand an study cognition

  They arise too rapidly to be conscious and they occur automatically in the background of current processes

• 1.2.1 Natural philosophy and early psychology

• Who where the pioneers of psychology in nineteenth century

  Wilhelm Wundt
  Hermann von Helmholtz
  William James

• 1.2.2 Behaviorism

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• Who where the most important names in behaviourism during the twentieth century?

  B.F. Skinner and John Watson

• Explain what operant conditioning does to rats

  Food rewards made rats more likely to engage in whatever behavior occurred immediately before the reward

• 1.2.3 Cognitive science

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• What did George Miller found in the 1950's

  People are able to represent 7 unique items at one time this was called immediate memory

• What is the focus of cognitive science

  It focusses on information processing associated with cognitive participants (human and none), computational simulation of cognitive psychology, social psych, psychiatry etc.

• What are cognitive models trying to describe

  The underlying psychological processes

• 1.3 neuroscience

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• What brain area where physicians interested in by the early nineteenth century?

  The cerebral cortex