Chapter 1

Question 1

cognitive neuroscience definition

Answer 1

• 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).

Question 2

cognitive neuroscience involves

Answer 2

–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

Question 3

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)?

Answer 3

• 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

Question 4

describe Golgi’s work

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

describe Ramon Y Cajal’s work …what did he tell us about neurons?

Answer 5

-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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

-technology

• EEG
• CT
• PET
• MRI
• fMRI