History of Cognition and Neuroscience

Psy391h - Class 2

(This page last updated 24 Jan 2006.)

"Traditional" Neuroscience

• Physiological methods
  • single-cell recording
  • lesions
• importance of animal studies

"Traditional" Cognitive Psychology

• In early years of Cog Psych, cognition was usually considered abstractly, independently of its implementation in the brain.
• methods
  • response time and accuracy measurements
  • computational models
• focused primarily on studying human cognition

Cognitive Neuroscience

• new methods
  • EEG (actually has been used for decades)
  • brain imaging
    • PET
    • MRI
    • fMRI
    • MEG
  • TMS

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Psych 391h: Cognitive Neuroscience Kyle Cave Psychology Dept. U. Mass.