Recap of RM

• Lesion

  Structural damage to the brain due to injury or disease
• What are the three major approaches in cognitive psychology?

  Experimental cognitive psychology, Cognitive neuropsychology, Cognitive neuroscience
• Define experimental cognitive psychology.

  Lab-controlled study where performance is monitored using behavioural evidence
• What are the three studied aspects of experimental cognitive psychology?

  1. Accuracy / Speed
  2. Strategies used
  3. Errors
• What are performance differences caused by?

  Experimental manipulation of stimuli
• What does performance from experimental cognitive psychology show?

  Provides indirect evidence about internal cognitive processes.
• Example of study using experimental cognitive psychology?

  Stroop Test
• What is studied in cognitive neuropsychology?

  Brain-damaged patients' patterns of cognitive performance
• How do patients' brains often become brain-damaged?

  Lesions
• Why are the patterns of cognition in brain-damaged people studied in cognitive neuropsychology?

  By studying the cognition of brain-damaged people, the cognition of healthy people's brains can be understood
• Who is a case study that is used in cognitive neuropsychology?

  HM
• What the symptoms found in HM after his hippocampus was removed?

  Intact short-term memory but impaired long-term memory
• What brain scans are used in cognitive neuroscience to measure brain activity?

  EEG/ERP , fMRI , TMS
• What do fMRIs show?

  Which brain areas are active during a cognitive task
• What do EEG/ERPs show?

  Timings of cognitive processes from the presentation of a particular stimulus
• What is the main goal of all three main approaches of cognitive psychology?

  To understand human cognition