Lecture 27

Question 1

What is the adaptive brain used for?

Answer 1

• Thought regulation
• Processing sensory information from the environment
• Translate important info into something useful for behaviour
• Remember previous behaviour
• Promote future behaviour for adaptive survival skills

Question 2

What did Donald Hebb note?

Answer 2

The a child’s brain could regain some function even with some removed. This differed in adults

Question 3

What is Hebb’s Law?

Answer 3

Neurons that fire together wire together

->cell A fires and causes B to fire, increases B efficiency

Question 4

What is a neural network?

Answer 4

Combination of neurons which could be grouped together as one processing unit

Question 5

Describe the aspects of hierarchy in terms of the brain

Answer 5

Organisation of network in which higher processes inform/suppress/inhibit lower processes