Vision
... Parallel processing – the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain’s natural mode of information processing for many functions including vision. Contrasts conscious problem solving ...
... Parallel processing – the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain’s natural mode of information processing for many functions including vision. Contrasts conscious problem solving ...
Readings
... Control room operators at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant lost SA when they believed the water level in the plant to be too high rather than too low. Three stages of situation awareness: Selective attention Understanding (short term and long term memory) Projection and prediction ( ...
... Control room operators at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant lost SA when they believed the water level in the plant to be too high rather than too low. Three stages of situation awareness: Selective attention Understanding (short term and long term memory) Projection and prediction ( ...
From Vision to Movement
... the visual stimulus, based on some kind of cue. In this paradigm, most visuomotor areas show tuning toward the visual stimulus in their visual responses, and tuning toward the movement direction in their motor responses, even in the same visuomotor cells. When combined with fMRI, one sees a similar ...
... the visual stimulus, based on some kind of cue. In this paradigm, most visuomotor areas show tuning toward the visual stimulus in their visual responses, and tuning toward the movement direction in their motor responses, even in the same visuomotor cells. When combined with fMRI, one sees a similar ...
primary visual cortex
... Friday, December 3: 3:30-4:30 Thursday, December 9: 10:00-12:00, 1:00-3:00 Friday, December 10: 10:00-1:00 ...
... Friday, December 3: 3:30-4:30 Thursday, December 9: 10:00-12:00, 1:00-3:00 Friday, December 10: 10:00-1:00 ...
A1984TF19600002
... to the medial or lateral visual cortex, and even in the auditory, somatosensory, and motor 4cortex. The 1965 paper of Hubel and Wiesel describing the organization of areas 17, 18, and 19 helped us define the separate subcortical projections from each area. The superficial laminae of the superior col ...
... to the medial or lateral visual cortex, and even in the auditory, somatosensory, and motor 4cortex. The 1965 paper of Hubel and Wiesel describing the organization of areas 17, 18, and 19 helped us define the separate subcortical projections from each area. The superficial laminae of the superior col ...
Are We Paying Attention Yet?
... Saccadic reaction times for cued locations were faster than uncued locations for exogenous and endogenous cueing Electrical stimulation with microcurrents produced a displacement of the constant saccade vector in the direction of the cued location Normally, this stimulation would generate a saccadic ...
... Saccadic reaction times for cued locations were faster than uncued locations for exogenous and endogenous cueing Electrical stimulation with microcurrents produced a displacement of the constant saccade vector in the direction of the cued location Normally, this stimulation would generate a saccadic ...
Targets for dopaminergic ligands
... between 0.2 and 0.6 were responders and all 7 outside this range were non-responders •This suggests that response could be improved by better regulation of the degree of transporter downregulation - See also( Meyer et al, Amer J Psych ...
... between 0.2 and 0.6 were responders and all 7 outside this range were non-responders •This suggests that response could be improved by better regulation of the degree of transporter downregulation - See also( Meyer et al, Amer J Psych ...
Summary of the Major Brain Structures
... circulation, digestion and heart rate. The medulla also controls a number of vital reflexes, such as swallowing, coughing, vomiting and sneezing. Area where neural messages from each side of the body cross to the opposite side of the brain. A hindbrain structure that connects the medulla to the two ...
... circulation, digestion and heart rate. The medulla also controls a number of vital reflexes, such as swallowing, coughing, vomiting and sneezing. Area where neural messages from each side of the body cross to the opposite side of the brain. A hindbrain structure that connects the medulla to the two ...
Topic 14 - Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
... access to information Most cognitive processing is unconscious. We are only conscious of the content of the mind, not what generates that content. The question of whether consciousness is required for cognitive processing has been investigated in patients with blindsight. Blindsight is the phenomeno ...
... access to information Most cognitive processing is unconscious. We are only conscious of the content of the mind, not what generates that content. The question of whether consciousness is required for cognitive processing has been investigated in patients with blindsight. Blindsight is the phenomeno ...
Visual Field and the Human Visual System
... PET Activations of Word vs. Nonword Stimuli Brain shows much greater activation as subjects look at visual words (2nd row) than when they view a static fixation point (top row). ...
... PET Activations of Word vs. Nonword Stimuli Brain shows much greater activation as subjects look at visual words (2nd row) than when they view a static fixation point (top row). ...
Localization of Cognitive Operations
... their attention has first been drawn to a different location in the direction of the lesion (15). This increase in reaction time for uncued but not cued contralesional targets is consistent with a specific deficit in the patient's ability to disengage attention from a cued location when the target i ...
... their attention has first been drawn to a different location in the direction of the lesion (15). This increase in reaction time for uncued but not cued contralesional targets is consistent with a specific deficit in the patient's ability to disengage attention from a cued location when the target i ...
Coming to Attention
... saw clear differences in activity in a few brain regions. Scientists have been aware of these regions' importance in controlling attention for a long time. The researchers were surprised, however, when they found a difference in the system, which is normally involved in processing emotional reaction ...
... saw clear differences in activity in a few brain regions. Scientists have been aware of these regions' importance in controlling attention for a long time. The researchers were surprised, however, when they found a difference in the system, which is normally involved in processing emotional reaction ...
Hadjar-EnvisionedThesis
... that usually arise only in test conditions. For example, while the left side of the brain can verbally describe what is going on in the right visual field, the right hemisphere is essentially mute, instead relying on its spatial abilities to interact with the world on the left visual field. And some ...
... that usually arise only in test conditions. For example, while the left side of the brain can verbally describe what is going on in the right visual field, the right hemisphere is essentially mute, instead relying on its spatial abilities to interact with the world on the left visual field. And some ...
Coming to Attention How the brain decides what to focus conscious
... functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers wanted to locate brain regions involved in conscious perception of a target stimulus. To do so, they needed a research technique to compare two conditions: one that led from active attention to conscious awareness of a stimulus, and a sec ...
... functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers wanted to locate brain regions involved in conscious perception of a target stimulus. To do so, they needed a research technique to compare two conditions: one that led from active attention to conscious awareness of a stimulus, and a sec ...
The Cerebral Association Cortex
... Evidence against: The cortex is not uniform. Different regions serve different functions. Grandmother cell theory: Simple cells connect to complex cells, complex cells connect to hyper-complex cells, and so on, until finally there is one unique cell that fires when you see your grandmother. If you l ...
... Evidence against: The cortex is not uniform. Different regions serve different functions. Grandmother cell theory: Simple cells connect to complex cells, complex cells connect to hyper-complex cells, and so on, until finally there is one unique cell that fires when you see your grandmother. If you l ...
Cognitive disabilities Cognitive disabilities
... Cognitive disabilities: a complex definition Some of the main categories of functional cognitive disabilities include deficits or difficulties with: ...
... Cognitive disabilities: a complex definition Some of the main categories of functional cognitive disabilities include deficits or difficulties with: ...
Imaging shows structural changes in mild traumatic brain injury
... attention, and executive function. All subjects were at least six months post-injury, and the majority were high-functioning people who were employed or in school at the time of evaluation. The researchers found that structural changes in the white matter correlate to observable cognitive deficits r ...
... attention, and executive function. All subjects were at least six months post-injury, and the majority were high-functioning people who were employed or in school at the time of evaluation. The researchers found that structural changes in the white matter correlate to observable cognitive deficits r ...
Chapter_3_ID2e_slides
... • Involves first encoding and then retrieving knowledge • We don’t remember everything - involves filtering and processing what is attended to • Well known fact that we recognize things much better than being able to recall things – Better at remembering images than words – Why interfaces are largel ...
... • Involves first encoding and then retrieving knowledge • We don’t remember everything - involves filtering and processing what is attended to • Well known fact that we recognize things much better than being able to recall things – Better at remembering images than words – Why interfaces are largel ...
vocab - sociallyconsciousbird.com
... cerebral cortex – the intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells that covers the cerebral hemispheres; the body’s ultimate control and information processing center glial cells – cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons frontal lobes – the portion of the cerebral c ...
... cerebral cortex – the intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells that covers the cerebral hemispheres; the body’s ultimate control and information processing center glial cells – cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons frontal lobes – the portion of the cerebral c ...
Objectives 49
... - most common causes of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease (50%) and vascular dementia (25%); other causes (25%): degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, substance abuse, alcohol-induced dementia (Korsakoff Syndrome), infectious diseases, AIDS, encephalitis, autoimmu ...
... - most common causes of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease (50%) and vascular dementia (25%); other causes (25%): degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, substance abuse, alcohol-induced dementia (Korsakoff Syndrome), infectious diseases, AIDS, encephalitis, autoimmu ...
Lecture 3
... Input to the cell causes depolarization of the cell body to threshold. An action potential propagates down the axon to the terminal. Transmitter is released, diffuses across the synaptic cleft to the postsynaptic cell and binds to receptors on the postsynaptic cell. The transmitter causes an electri ...
... Input to the cell causes depolarization of the cell body to threshold. An action potential propagates down the axon to the terminal. Transmitter is released, diffuses across the synaptic cleft to the postsynaptic cell and binds to receptors on the postsynaptic cell. The transmitter causes an electri ...
11 Attention
... Attention changes location prior to eye movement D. Wurtz, Goldberg, and Robinson: Record neural activity from Posterior Parietal Psychology 355 ...
... Attention changes location prior to eye movement D. Wurtz, Goldberg, and Robinson: Record neural activity from Posterior Parietal Psychology 355 ...
669790507205MyersMod_LG_12
... Visual Information Processing 2. Discuss the different levels of visual information processing. We process information at progressively more abstract levels. The information from the retina’s 130 million rods and cones is received and transmitted by the million or so ganglion cells whose fibers make ...
... Visual Information Processing 2. Discuss the different levels of visual information processing. We process information at progressively more abstract levels. The information from the retina’s 130 million rods and cones is received and transmitted by the million or so ganglion cells whose fibers make ...