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| surgical disconnection of the 2 hemispheres in which the corpus callosum is cut |
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| idea, resulting from a set of impressions that some mental ability exists as an entity; ex memory, language and emotion |
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| act or process of knowing or coming to know; psychology, used to refer to the process of thought |
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| a hypothetical group of neurons that become functionally connected because they receive the same sensory inputs |
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| neocortex outside the primary sensory and motor cortices that functions to produce cognition |
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| anterior cingulate cortex |
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| plays a role in emotion (interface between emotion and cognition) |
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| philosophical question focused on how the brain ties single and varied sensory and motor events together into a unified perception or behaviour |
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| populated by neurons that response to info from more than one sensory modality |
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| refers to a whole range of mental functions that vary from navigational ability (point A to point B) to the mental manipulation of complex visual arrays |
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| selective narrowing or focusing of awareness to part of the sensory environment or to a class of stimuli |
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| ignoring a part of the body or world on the side opposite that of the brain injury |
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| neglect of information on one side of the body when it is presented simultaneously with similar information on the other side of the body |
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| tendency to emit repeatedly the same verbal or motor response to varied stimuli |
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| cells in the primate pre-motor cortex that fires when a individual observes a specific action taken by another individual |
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| study of the neural bases of cognition |
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| map of the complete structural and functional neural connections of the human brain in vivo |
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| Functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) |
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resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) to measure functional correlations between brain regions
- Cerebral cortex is made up of primary sensory and motor networks as well as the multiple large-scale networks that form the association cortex |
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| diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) |
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| provide results, often call tractography, that complement the networks mapped by fcMRI |
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| measures actual neuro-anatomical pathways that can be related to specific traits |
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| increased local connections between 2 related brain regions |
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| interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how the brain mediates social interactions |
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| ability to attribute mental states to others |
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| ability to control our emotions and impulses as a mean for achieving long-term goals |
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| interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how the brain makes decisions |
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| - Quick decisions with automatic gain, ^ activity dopaminergic reward system, ventromedial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum |
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| Slower, deliberate decisions, ^ activity in lateral prefrontal, medial temporal, and posterior parietal cortex |
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| experimental procedure for simultaneously presenting a different auditory input to each ear through stereophonic earphones |
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| testes determining factor (TDF) |
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| this gene stimulates the body to produce testes, which then manufacture androgens, which subsequently influence the activities of other genes |
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| anomalous speech representation |
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| condition in which a person’s speech zones are located in the right hemisphere or in both hemispheres |
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| ability to perceive a stimulus of one sense as the sensation of a different sense, as when sound produces a sensation of color; literally “feeling together” |
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| form of thinking that searches for a single answer to a question (2+2 =?) |
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| form of thinking that searches for multiple solutions to a problem (how many different ways can a pen be used?) |
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| hebb’s term for innate intellectual potential, which is highly heritable and cannot be measure directly |
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| hebb’s term for observed intelligence, which is influenced by experience as well as other factors in the course of development and is measured by intelligence tests |
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| the minds level of responsiveness to impressions made by the senses |
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