Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

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NEURONS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

The Microstructure of the Brain: Neurons

The Signals That Travel in Neurons

METHOD: Recording From a Neuron

LOCALIZATION OF FUNCTION

Localization for Perception

METHOD: Brain Imaging

Localization for Language

METHOD: Event-Related Potential

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DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING IN THE BRAIN

REPRESENTATION IN THE BRAIN

Representing a Tree: Feature Detectors

The Neural Code for Faces

The Neural Code for Memory

SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: “MIND READING” BY MEASURING BRAIN ACTIVITY

BY MEASURING BRAIN ACTIVITY

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CHAPTER SUMMARY

THINK ABOUT IT

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE

KEY TERMS

MEDIA RESOURCES

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