Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
components with those in visual spatial attention. Patients with lesions of the right parietal lobe have deficits both in scanni ...
Damasio, A. R., & Damasio, H. (1983).Neurology 33, 1573. Damasio, A. R., & Van Hoesen, G. W. (1983). In K. M. Heilman an ...
Chapter 38 The Mind and Donald O. Hebb Peter M. Milner Donald O. Hebb, one of the most influential psychologists of his time, be ...
supported himself by teaching and, again, what started out as a temporary in- terest verged on becoming a career. After one year ...
guish vertical from horizontal lines. Only many years later, after he had again changedhisideasabouttherelativeimportanceofinnat ...
heavy teaching load, he kept up work on the problem of intelligence. Together with a student, Kenneth Williams, he developed a v ...
with chimpanzees. Lashley’s intention was to develop tests of learning and problem solving for the animals, while Hebb would stu ...
the cortex does not extend beyond the primary visual cortex, he assumed that the neural relays projected into the surrounding co ...
Hebb assumed that most of the synapses in the cortical lattice are initially too weak to fire spontaneously. To fire, they would ...
adept at campus politics and soon discovered how to use his growing reputa- tion to apply pressure where it would do the most go ...
Hebb envisaged it. Yet even if Hebb’s version should turn out to be incorrect, it would not diminish the value of his idea that ...
Chapter 39 Imaging the Future Michael I. Posner and Daniel J. Levitin One thousand years ago it was not universally held that th ...
In the coming decades, we can expect our maps of brain anatomy to yield greater detail and spatial resolution, even if no new me ...
little response is required. When the shift of attention involves more detailed analysis of the nature of the visual event, or w ...
Comparative Anatomy As principles emerge in the study of the human brain these areas of activation can be viewed in relation to ...
imagining a scene, frontally based attention and semantic systems can be used to activated posterior areas related to the visual ...
The studies outlined above suggest the continued plasticity of some aspects of brain circuitry with new learning. However, there ...
rate from the brain areas that were responsive to pictures of furniture. Whereas the areas active for these concepts were genera ...
report illustrates what might be possible. Dehaene (1996) has argued that areas of the posterior parietal cortex are important f ...
situational forces can often confound our predictions based on traits (Malle, 1995; Ross & Nisbett, 1991). The findings of b ...
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