MEDIA RESOURCES
Key TERMS
Action potential, 28
Axon, 26
Brain imaging, 30
Broca’s aphasia, 33
Broca’s area, 33
Cell body, 26
Cerebral cortex, 29
Cognitive neuroscience,
24
Dendrites, 26
Distributed coding, 40
Distributed processing, 36
Event-related potential
(ERP), 34
Extrastriate body area
(EBA), 32
Feature detectors, 38
Frontal lobe, 30
Functional magnetic resonance imag-
ing (fMRI), 32
Fusiform face area (FFA), 32
Grandmother cell, 40
Localization of function, 29
Microelectrode, 28
Module, 32
Nerve fi ber, 26
Nerve impulse, 28
Nerve net, 26
Neural circuit, 27
Neural code, 39
Neuron, 26
Neuron doctrine, 26
Neurotransmitter, 29
Occipital lobe, 30Parahippocampal place area
(PPA), 32
Parietal lobe, 30
Positron emission tomogra-
phy (PET), 30
Primary receiving area, 30
Prosopagnosia, 30
Receptors, 26
Recording electrode, 28
Reference electrode, 28
Retina, 38
Specifi city coding, 39
Subtraction technique, 31
Synapse, 27
Temporal lobe, 30
Wernicke’s aphasia, 33
Wernicke’s area, 33Media RESOURCES
The Cognitive Psychology
Book Companion Website
http://www.cengage.com/psychology/goldstein
Prepare for quizzes and exams with online resources—
including a glossary, fl ashcards, tutorial quizzes, crossword
puzzles, and more.
CogLab
To experience these experiments for yourself, go to coglab.
wadsworth.com. Be sure to read each experiment’s setup
instructions before you go to the experiment itself.Otherwise,
you won’t know which keys to press.
Primary Lab
Receptive fi elds A receptive fi eld of a visual neuron is the area
on the retina that infl uences the activity of that neuron. In this
lab, you can map the receptive fi elds of some neurons. (p. 39)Related Lab
Brain asymmetry How speed of processing for shapes and
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