Language & Cognition
PSY 511.003
2024-03-28
In what way are muscles sensory organs?
Why is the monosynaptic stretch (myotatic) reflex important?
What role does Ca++ play in muscle contraction?
Which brain area(s) are most responsible for voluntary motor control?
Main points
- Cognition has multiple facets
- Core questions
- What to do next?
- How to do it?
- Perception, attention, memory, problem solving, etc.
- Computational/algorithmic approaches ascendant
- Forms of cognition seen across species and development
- Cerebral cortex critical (in humans and closely related animals)
- Mapping brain states to cognitive processes
- Language as a behavior
- Multiple modalities
- Symbolic
- Wernicke-Geschwind model
- Anatomically separable streams for input/output
- Oversimplifies
- Top-down/bottom-up + feedback