cognitive neuroscience

• Cognitive Neuroscience is a field that became popular over the latter half of the twentieth century, incorporating neuroscience techniques such as brain scanning to study the impact of brain structures on cognitive processes
• Cognitive Neuroscience looks for a biological basis to explaining mental processes
• Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of the mind as an information processor
• Cognitive psychologists try to build up cognitive models of the information processing that goes on inside people's minds, including perception, attention, language, memory, thinking, and consciousness
• Poor sleep triggers


  Viral loneliness and social rejection
• The brains of sleep-deprived individuals exhibited heightened activity in areas that deal with perceived human threats and a shutdown of areas that encourage social interaction
• This is the first study to show a two-way relationship between sleep loss and becoming socially isolated
• Tulving found using MRI that different types of long term memory (episodic & semantic) may be located on different sides of the prefrontal cortex
• Lesson Objectives


  1. To explore the emergence of Cognitive Neuroscience

  2. To evaluate Cognitive Neuroscience
• Research Task


  1. Create/choose your 6 A01 description points for cognitive neuroscience (statements/facts)

  2. Create two PEEL'd evaluation points specifically for cognitive neuroscience

  3. Answer the following exam style question: "Outline the emergence of cognitive neuroscience" (4 marks)
• Explain one strength and one limitation of the cognitive approach (4 marks)
• To explain internal cognitive processes such as memory, cognitive psychologists often use an information processing model based on the computer analogy. Explain one similarity and one difference between humans and computers (4 marks)
• Explain the emergence of "cognitive neuroscience" (3 marks)