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CGS 2301 Exam 1 Questions andAnswers
cognitive science defintion - Answers -problems solved with brains and minds;
interdisciplinary
sensation and perception - Answers -internalizing the physical world
-light: electromagnetic radiation- vision
-sound: sound pressure level- audition
-chemical: olfaction, gustatory, trigeminal: senses toxic chemicals
-mechanical: touch
-temperatures
-gravity, acceleration: vestibular sense
-infrared, echolocation, magnetic
4 things - Answers -1) understanding, thought, planning/imagining, solving, attention,
learning, memory
2) communication- speech, language, gesture, body lang, posture, gait
3) action- manipulating the nevironment; actively exploring, navigation
4) emotion- drive system
psychology - Answers -mind and behavior, hypothesis testing, clinical, analytic,
introspective
neuroscience - Answers -neural basis of perception, cognition, action
neuroanatomy - Answers -structure- neurons and neural tracts, staining, brain injury
neurophysiology - Answers -functions of neurons, recording from single neurons
(w/stimulation), neuroimaging
neuropsychology - Answers -global functions of brain areas, lesions, electrical
stimulation
computer science, engineering, and robotics - Answers -build machines that stimulate
the functions of perception (vision, audition, etc.), cognition (thought, speech
understanding), communication (language, task interface), action (manipulation of
objects - robots)
philosophy - Answers -reason based approach to understanding the mind, predates
psychology (scientific method)
, cognitive science is a: - Answers -reverse engineering problem, the solution is the
human brain
Who said "What can the senses tell us?" - Answers -Locke, Hume, Berkeley
Who said "What is consciousness?" - Answers -Descartes
recursion problem - Answers -you are the machine that you study
When was the first written mention of the brain? - Answers -1700 BCE
What was the copy of a surgical treatise about? (3000-2500 BCE) - Answers -how to
treat a skull injury
egyptian view - Answers -the heart is the seat of mind and intellect
Alcemeaon - Answers -Sicily, 450 BCE
-first neuroscientist
-brain is seat of perception and cognition, anatomical dissection because of optic nerve
eye/brain, light bearing paths- rubbing your eyes- phospheres
Hippocrates - Answers -Mediterranean, 452 BCE
-philosopher, leading biologist, founder of comparative anatomy, embryology, studied
animal behavior, dissected 49 different animals but never a human
-blunder: heart not brain controls sensation
Galen - Answers -Pergamon (129-199 AD)
-1st detailed anatomy of brain, ox vs. human
-lesion experiments: laryngeal nerve, pigs' vocalization
-mistake (long lasting)- soul/mind in ventricles of brain- psychic pneuma (animal spirits)
-soul- should not be material substance
Medieval Cell Doctrine - Answers -199-1200 AD
ventricles-
cell 1: lateral, common sense, multimodality
cell 2: middle, reason, thought
cell 3: memory
early church - Answers -thought nature of the soul was nonmaterialistic
A. du Laurens - Answers -(1597) professor of medicine
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