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Study Notes
Cogsci: A Multidisciplinary Field
- Cognitive Science combines perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology to understand the human mind.
- Philosophers use argumentation and analysis, including deductive reasoning, to investigate cognitive processes.
- Psychologists utilize experimental techniques and paradigms to study cognition.
- Neuroscientists employ techniques with spatial and temporal resolution, case studies, lesion studies, and brain imaging to examine neural correlates of cognition.
- Cognitive Psychologists utilize modeling to explain cognitive processes.
- AI Researchers rely on computer modeling to simulate and understand cognitive functions.
- Temporal Resolution refers to the precision of measuring time intervals in brain activity.
- Spatial Resolution indicates the accuracy of determining the location of neural activity.
- Westernized, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations are heavily represented in psychology research, leading to potential biases in generalizing findings to humanity as a whole.
- Cognition encompasses the mental processes of acquiring, storing, transforming, and utilizing knowledge.
History of Cognitive Science
- Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychology lab in 1879.
- Behaviorism arose in the early 20th century, advocating for the study of observable stimuli and responses and excluding internal mental states.
- Cognitive Psychology emerged in the mid-20th century, emphasizing the importance of mental processes and using computer analogies to understand cognition.
- The Computational Model of Mind views cognitive processes as algorithmic information processing.
Neural Structures and Functions
- Frontal Lobe: Responsible for speech, voluntary movements, planning, and judgment.
- Parietal Lobe: Houses the sensory cortex, responsible for processing sensory information.
- Occipital Lobe: Processes visual information.
- Temporal Lobe: Processes auditory information.
- Motor Cortex: Controls voluntary muscle movements.
- Sensory Cortex: Receives and processes sensory information.
- Limbic System: Plays a crucial role in emotions and memory.
- Amygdala: Associated with emotions, particularly fear and aggression.
- Hippocampus: Crucial for memory formation and consolidation.
Key Concepts in Perception
- Sensation: The process of converting sensory stimuli into neural impulses.
- Perception: The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, influenced by prior knowledge and experience.
Models of Object Perception
- Template Matching: Matching sensory input to stored representations of objects (e.g., different handwriting).
- Feature Analysis: Analyzing the features of an object to recognize it (e.g., lines, curves, edges).
- Prototype Approach: Comparing sensory input to stored prototypes representing average object features.
- Recognition-by-Components: Decomposing objects into basic geometric shapes (geons) for recognition.
- Artificial Neural Networks: Computer models inspired by the brain, composed of interconnected nodes (neurons) and connections (weights).
- Backpropagation: A training method for artificial neural networks involving adjusting the weights of connections based on the error between actual and desired outputs.
Attention & Consciousness
- Bottom-Up Processing: Analysis of sensory information starting from the sensory receptors and working up to the brain's integration.
- Top-Down Processing: Information processing guided by prior beliefs, expectations, and memories.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Beliefs shape our experiences and perceptions.
- Pygmalion Effect: Expectations influence behavior and performance.
- Perceptual Constancies: Our perception of an object remains stable despite changes in sensory input (e.g., shape, lightness, size).
- Modular Processing: Specialized information processing modules operate independently, often automatically.
- Prosopagnosia: Inability to recognize faces.
- Visual Agnosia: Inability to recognize objects.
- Unilateral Spatial Neglect: Neglecting the left side of space after a stroke in the right hemisphere.
- Blindsight: Individuals who are blind exhibit some visual capabilities without conscious awareness.
Music & The Brain
- Mozart Effect: Music can temporarily improve performance on certain cognitive tasks.
- Marketing Studies: Music, packaging color, and customer reviews influence consumer behavior.
- Music's Brain Impact: Music activates all brain areas simultaneously, promotes well-being, and benefits from active engagement (playing or singing).
- Synesthesia: Experiencing one sensory modality in terms of another (e.g., "loud color").
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Synesthesia Theories:
- Brain Structure: Increased brain connectivity between sensory areas.
- Feedback Connections: Disruption of inhibitory connections, leading to cross-sensory experiences.
Memory & Retrieval
- Priming: Unconscious activation of associations in memory, influencing subsequent behavior and thoughts.
- Dichotic Listening: Participants listen to different messages in each ear, with instructions to attend to only one. They can still pick up on important information (e.g., their name) from the unattended channel.
- Cocktail Party Effect: Ability to focus on one conversation amidst multiple conversations, indicating selective attention.
Sleep & Dreams
- Sleep Debt: Accumulated lack of sleep.
- Sleep Deprivation: Negative health consequences, including increased risks for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression, and car accidents, especially for adolescents.
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Neurophysiological Functions of Sleep:
- Memory Consolidation: Strengthening and consolidating memories.
- Rest and Restoration: Repairing and regenerating tissues.
- Glymphatic System Function: Clearing toxins and waste products from the brain.
- Basic Rest-Activity Cycle: Recurring 90-minute cycles of autonomic activity.
- REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep: Associated with dreaming, muscle paralysis, lively brain activity, and physiological changes.
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Theories of Dreaming:
- Freud's Wish Fulfillment: Dreams represent unconscious desires and repressed thoughts.
- Modern Psychodynamic View: Dreams reflect our life experiences and offer solutions to problems.
- Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis (Hobson & McCarley): Dreams arise from the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural activity.
- Cognitive Development Theory: Dreaming contributes to cognitive development.
- Memory Consolidation View: REM sleep is important for consolidating memories.
- Slow-Wave Sleep: Promotes declarative memory consolidation.
- REM Sleep: Enhances the processing of emotional memories.
- Dreams & Emotional Processing: Traumatic dreams can be about unresolved emotional events.
- Recurrent Dreams: Often nightmares, suggesting unresolved emotional issues.
- Progression of Dreams: Progression from traumatic dreams to recurrent nightmares to frequent dream elements, reflecting deeper emotional processing.
- Continuity Hypothesis: Dream life often reflects waking life.
Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem
- Mind-Body Issue: Debates about the relationship between the mind and the body.
- Monism: The belief that reality is ultimately composed of a single substance.
- Idealism (Monism): The belief that reality is ultimately mental.
- Materialism (Monism): The belief that reality is ultimately physical.
- Dualism: The belief that mind and body are separate and distinct entities.
- Functionalism: Defines mental states in terms of their causal roles.
- Consciousness: The state or quality of awareness, or of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
- Access Consciousness: The ability to report or use information (e.g., prefrontal and parietal regions).
- Phenomenal Consciousness: How and why we experience subjective qualia (e.g., posterior hot zone).
- The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Explaining how and why physical processes give rise to subjective experience.
Theories of Consciousness
- Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: Consciousness arises from the integration and complexity of neural signals.
- Split-Brain Research: Consciousness is linked to the verbal mechanisms in the left hemisphere.
- Anosognosia: Denial of illness or disability.
Hypnosis & Psychoactive Substances
- Hypnosis: A state of increased suggestibility and relaxation, allowing for altered perceptions and experiences.
- Hypnotic Susceptibility: Individuals with rich fantasy lives and strong imaginations are more susceptible to hypnosis.
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Uses of Hypnosis:
- Memory Recovery: Facilitating the retrieval of past memories.
- Treatment of Physical Disorders: Managing a range of physical conditions.
- Pain Control: Managing pain, particularly childbirth pain (hypnobirthing).
- The Hidden Observer: A dissociated part of the hypnotized individual remains aware.
Hallucinogens
- Hallucinogens: Substances that alter perception, cognition, and mood, often producing vivid hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
- Examples of Hallucinogens: LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), Psilocybin (shrooms)
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LSD:
- Mechanism of Action: Stimulates serotonin and dopamine receptors.
- Effects: Anxiety reduction, dissolution of boundaries, spiritual experiences.
- Risks: Panic attacks, flashbacks, psychotic breaks.
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MDMA (Ecstasy):
- Mechanism of Action: Releases and blocks reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine.
- Effects: Emotional elevation, potential treatment for PTSD.
- Risks: Dehydration, overheating, serotonin depletion, depression, memory impairments.
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Psilocybin (Shrooms):
- Mechanism of Action: Stimulates serotonin receptors.
- Effects: Euphoria, spiritual experiences, hallucinations.
- Risks: Nausea, panic attacks, psychotic episodes.
Brain Regions & Functions
- Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC): Plays a key role in integrating cognitive and emotional information, selective attention, and processing of information related to internal states (e.g., pain, error detection).
- Posterior HotZone: Area of the brain involved in phenomenal consciousness.
- Cerebellum: Not explicitly involved in consciousness.
The Job of Cognitive Science
- Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field that combines perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, computer science, philosophy, language, and anthropology.
Philosophical Methods in Cognitive Science
- Philosophers use arguments and analysis to understand the mind and its workings.
- They rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at conclusions.
Psychological Methods in Cognitive Science
- Psychologists utilize experimental techniques and paradigms to study cognition.
- They conduct experiments to test hypotheses about mental processes.
Neurological Methods in Cognitive Science
- Neuroscientists examine brain function through spatial and temporal resolution.
- They use methods like case studies, lesions, and brain imaging to investigate the brain's role in cognition.
Cognitive Psychology Methods
- Cognitive psychologists use modeling to understand mental processes.
- They create models to represent how information is processed in the mind.
Artificial Intelligence Methods
- AI researchers employ computer modeling to study and simulate intelligent behavior.
- They develop programs that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
Spatial Resolution in Neuroscience
- Spatial resolution refers to the precision with which neuroimaging techniques locate specific brain regions.
- High spatial resolution allows researchers to identify the precise areas involved in cognitive functions.
Temporal Resolution in Neuroscience
- Temporal resolution refers to the accuracy with which neuroimaging techniques pinpoint the timing of brain activity.
- High temporal resolution allows researchers to track the flow of information through the brain over time.
Limitations of Western Psychological Experiments
- Conclusions drawn from Western psychological experiments may not represent humanity as a whole.
- This is because participants are frequently drawn from a specific population – WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic).
Definition of Cognition
- Cognition refers to the mental activities associated with acquiring, storing, transforming, and using knowledge.
- It encompasses a wide range of cognitive processes, including perception, memory, attention, language, and reasoning.
Wilhelm Wundt and the First Psychology Lab
- Wilhelm Wundt is credited with establishing the first psychology laboratory in 1879.
- This marked a significant turning point in the development of psychology as a scientific discipline.
Behaviorism's Influence on Psychology
- Behaviorism emerged in the early 20th century.
- It proposed that psychology should focus exclusively on observable stimuli and responses.
- This led to a period in which the study of mental processes was largely disregarded.
The Cognitive Revolution
- The Cognitive Revolution in psychology emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.
- It revived interest in studying mental processes, such as memory, language, and problem-solving.
- The use of computers as a model for understanding cognition became a key feature.
Computational Model of Mind in Cognitive Science
- The computational model of mind suggests that cognition involves algorithmic information processing.
- It views the brain as a complex information-processing system that operates on a set of rules and processes.
Parallel Distributed Processing
- Parallel distributed processing (PDP) suggests that the brain carries out multiple tasks simultaneously.
- It explains that even when some information is lost or incorrect, the brain can complete cognitive processes efficiently.
Brain Structures and Their Functions
- Frontal Lobe: Responsible for executive functions, including speech, muscle movement, planning, and judgement.
- Parietal Lobe: Involved in sensory processing, spatial awareness, and attention.
- Occipital Lobe: Processes visual information.
- Temporal Lobe: Processes auditory information and plays a role in memory and language.
- Motor Cortex: Controls voluntary movements.
- Sensory Cortex: Processes sensory information from the body.
Limbic System
- The limbic system is crucial for emotions, motivation, and memory.
- It is composed of the amygdala and hippocampus.
Amygdala
- The amygdala is responsible for processing emotions, particularly fear and aggression.
Hippocampus
- The hippocampus plays a crucial role in the formation and consolidation of memories.
Limitations of the Experimental Method in Psychology
- Lack of Ecological Validity: Controlled lab settings may not reflect real-life situations.
- Inquantifiable Aspects of Life: Many important aspects of life cannot be easily measured or quantified.
- Belief as a Confounding Variable: People's pre-existing beliefs can influence the outcomes of experiments.
Sensation versus Perception
- Sensation: Refers to the process of our sensory receptors and nervous system converting stimulus energies from the environment into neural impulses.
- Perception: The process of interpreting and organizing sensory information based on prior knowledge and expectations.
Models of Object Perception
- Template Matching (Exemplar Approach): Compares incoming information with stored representations of objects.
- Feature Analysis (Feature Approach): Breaks down objects into their basic features and uses those features for recognition.
- Prototype (Prototype Approach): Represents a category of objects by a single prototype, and compares incoming information to this prototype.
- Recognition-By-Components: Recognizes objects based on their components (geons).
Limitations of Early Models of Object Perception
- Template Matching: Difficulty accounting for the complexities and flexibility of real-world object recognition.
- Feature Analysis: Limitation in explaining the recognition of intricate objects with moving features.
Artificial Neural Networks
- Neurons: Represent individual nodes in the network.
- Weights: Connections between nodes that mimic inhibitory and excitatory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs and EPSPs).
How Artificial Neural Networks Work
- The first layer of nodes receives input data and activates based on the information.
- The subsequent layers process and transform this information based on the weights of connections.
- The final layer provides the output, typically a prediction or classification.
Training Multilayered Neural Networks
- Backpropagation is a common technique for training multilayered neural networks.
- It adjusts the connection weights between nodes based on the network's performance on training data.
Risks of Overfitting in Neural Networks
- Increasing the number of hidden layers in a neural network can cause overfitting.
- This means the network becomes too tailored to the training data and struggles to generalize to new data.
Bottom-Up Processing in Perception
- Information gathered from the outside world through sensory receptors is analyzed and integrated by the brain.
Top-Down Processing in Perception
- Our beliefs, expectations, and memories influence the way we process information.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Our beliefs and expectations shape our experiences and perceptions.
Pygmalion Effect
- People are influenced by the expectations others have of them.
- The famous study by Rosenthal and Jacobson showed that children labeled as "spurters" by teachers showed greater IQ gains, even though the label was assigned randomly.
Perceptual Constancies
- Shape Constancy: Perceiving an object's shape as constant even when its orientation changes.
- Lightness Constancy: Perceiving an object's lightness as constant even when its illumination varies.
- Size-Distance Constancy: Perceiving an object's size as constant, even when its distance from us changes.
Light Constancy
- We perceive an object's lightness to remain consistent even when the amount of light hitting it changes.
Modular Processing
- Specialized information processing modules in the brain respond automatically and are difficult to control.
Prosopagnosia
- Inability to recognize faces, despite normal vision.
Visual Agnosia
- Inability to recognize objects, despite normal vision.
Unilateral Spatial Neglect
- A condition resulting from strokes in the right hemisphere (parietal and frontal lobes).
- Individuals ignore the left side of their visual field, even though they may be unconsciously aware of it.
Blindsight
- A condition in which blind individuals exhibit some spared visual capacities without any conscious awareness of seeing.
Mozart Effect
- Research suggests that listening to Mozart's music might temporarily enhance spatial-temporal reasoning skills, but the effect is short-lived and not fully understood.
Marketing Studies and Cognitive Psychology
- Music temperature influences purchase behavior and sales in stores.
- Customer ratings (aggregate data) and individual comments (individualized data) have different impacts on consumer choices, potentially affected by background music.
- The color of packaging influences consumers' perceptions of products.
Music's Impact on the Brain
- Music uniquely activates all brain regions, contributing to improved mental and physical well-being.
- The benefits are enhanced when paired with musical performance (playing an instrument or singing).
Synesthesia
- A blending of senses, where one sensation is perceived as triggering another.
- Examples: "loud color," "sweet sound."
Theories of Synesthesia
- Enhanced Brain Connectivity: Individuals may have more connections between brain regions responsible for processing different senses.
- Feed-Backwards Connectivity: Connections carry information from multi-sensory areas to single sensory areas.
- Inhibited signals preventing information from flowing down the wrong path might be disrupted, causing cross-sensory experiences.
Priming
- Unconscious activation of associations stored in memory.
- Exposure to one thing can influence later behaviors or thoughts.
Dichotic Listening
- A psychological test using headphones to present different auditory messages in each ear.
- Participants are instructed to focus on one ear while ignoring the other but can often pick up important words like their name from the ignored ear.
The Filter Model of Attention
- We filter out most incoming information, allowing only a small portion to reach conscious awareness.
- This allows us to focus on important information despite a bombardment of sensory input.
Physiological and Neurological Measures of Attention
- Neurocorrelates: Brain activity patterns, such as ERP (event-related potential) and PET (positron emission tomography), reveal changes in brain areas associated with attention.
- Orienting Response: Increased heart rate and galvanic skin response indicate a shift in focus.
- Pupil Dilation: Enlarged pupils show an increase in attention to a stimulus.
- Eye Movements: Tracking eye movements reveals what a person is attending to.
Change Blindness
- Failure to notice changes in the environment while trying to maintain object constancy.
Automaticity and Attention
- With practice, many tasks become automatic, freeing up cognitive resources for other activities.
Limitations of Automatic Processing
- While efficient and allowing multitasking, automatic processing lacks accuracy and may prevent us from fully appreciating life's richness.
Theories of Attention
- Bottleneck Theories: Limit the amount of information we can attend to at once.
- Automatic Versus Controlled Processing: Automatic processes are efficient for habitual tasks, while controlled processes are effortful for complex tasks.
- Feature Integration Theory: Focuses on the distribution of attention, with distributed attention recognizing single features automatically and focused attention required to integrate features for more complex objects.
ADHD and Attention
- Children with ADHD who fidget and wiggle during cognitive tasks may perform better.
- Movement provides stimulation and helps them regulate their attention.
Biofeedback for ADHD
- Training individuals to control autonomic processes like heart rate to manage ADHD symptoms.
Neurofeedback for ADHD
- A form of biofeedback that uses devices like EEGs and fMRI to measure brain activity and provide feedback to modify behavior.
- Neurofeedback aims to enhance brainwave patterns for improved attention.
Neurofeedback and ADHD Treatment
- Neurofeedback has shown to increase activity in the right inferior frontal cortex, a brain area crucial for cognitive control, thus improving ADHD symptoms.
Television and Attention
- Excessive TV viewing may contribute to attention problems due to its reliance on bottom-up processing, leading to external rather than internal control of attention.
Sleep Deprivation and Cognition
- Lack of sleep impairs the prefrontal cortex, negatively affecting attention, memory, decision-making, and memory consolidation.
- It disrupts the brain's ability to make broad connections between information.
Sleep Deprivation and Adolescents
- Teenagers who don't get enough sleep are at risk for health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression, and car accidents.
Sleep Debt
- Accumulated lack of sleep.
Neurophysiological Functions of Sleep
- Consolidation of memories
- Rest and restoration
- Toxin removal through the glymphatic system
Glymphatic System
- During sleep, cerebrospinal fluid circulates through the brain, flushing out toxins and clearing damaging molecules.
Basic Rest-Activity Cycle
- A recurring cycle with approximately 90-minute intervals for different autonomic activities.
Dreams and the Sleep Cycle
- Dreams are often reported during REM sleep but can also occur during NREM sleep.
Theories of Dreaming
- Freud's Wish Fulfillment Theory: Dreams reflect unconscious desires and emotions.
- Modern Psychodynamic View: Dreams are a way to work through unresolved issues and find solutions to problems.
- Hobson & McCarley's Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis: Dreams emerge from random neural activity, and the brain attempts to make sense of this activity.
- Cognitive Development Theory: Dreaming contributes to cognitive development.
- Memory Consolidation Theory: Dreams may be essential for memory consolidation, especially REM sleep.
Memory Consolidation During Sleep
- Slow-wave sleep is thought to consolidate declarative memory.
- REM sleep enhances the processing of emotional memories.
Emotional Aspects of Dreams
- Dreams are often used to work through emotional issues.
- Traumatic dreams frequently stem from unresolved or unassimilated emotional events.
Recurrent Dreams
- Recurring dreams are predominantly nightmares.
- They are often experienced by sensitive individuals.
Dream Progression
- Traumatic dreams often lead to recurring dreams, which then evolve into repetitive themes within longer dream series and ultimately contribute to frequent elements within the dreamer's overall dream experience.
Dream Themes and Frequency
- Dream themes tend to remain consistent over time.
Continuity Hypothesis of Dreams
- Our dreams reflect our waking lives.
Emotional Content of Dreams
- Around 80% of dreams involve negative emotions.
Lucid Dream Induction Techniques
- Dream recall
- Getting ample sleep
- Napping
- Sleeping in different positions
- Reality testing within dreams
- Autosuggestion
- Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming (MILD)
- Strengthening the desire for lucidity
Transforming Dreams and Nightmares
- Transforming dreams can help alleviate recurring nightmares.
Mind-Body Problem
- Addresses the relationship between the mind and the physical body.
Viewpoints on the Mind-Body Problem
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Monism: The belief that reality consists of a single substance, either mental or physical.
- Idealism: Everything is ultimately mind.
- Materialism: Everything is ultimately matter.
- Dualism: Holds that mind and body are distinct and separate substances.
- Functionalism: Focuses on the functions of mental states, not their physical implementation.
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