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Donders Subtractive Method

Weber/Fechner psychophysics, just noticable difference

Ebbinghaus Study of memory

Wundt 1st psychology lab, studied introspection

Classical Conditioning Skinner, pairs stimulus with unrelated response

Operant Conditioning Pavlov, stimulus and responses learned

Sperling studied how much you can see in a short visual display, found it only lasted 1/2 second

Sternberg studied how fast you can access short term memory, created linear line.... as memory set increases, RT increases

Atkinson-Shiffron Theory 3 stages, sensory memory 1/2 secon, short term memory 15-30 seconds, and long term memory minutes to lifetime

Hubble and Wiesel won Nobel prize for studying the Limulus and mapping the visual pathway..... eyes toward the nose are contralateral, eyes toward the parietal are ipsilateral

Lateral Inhibition Responsible for edge detection

EEG studies the brain via electrical activity by placing sensors on the head

ERP Event Related Potentials, shows the response in brain directly related to a thought or perception

PET, MRI, fMRI scans that deal with the metabolic activity in the brain

Phineas Gage had the tamping rod in his brain

Brocas Area Motor control of speech area in the brain

Parietal Damage spatial processing, attention, and neglect

Wernick's Aphasia temporal damage, effects word recognition

Scotomas damage to the occipital lobe, holes in the area of vision

Sensation is automatic and bottom-up processing

Perception Controlled and Top-Down Processing

Hubel and Wiesel (not limulus) single cell recording feature analysis, and template matching

Feature Analysis breaks everything down into fundamental shapes

Template Matching holistic image is formed in the brain

Selfridge and Neisser pandemonium theory: mind has pattern recognition, demons in the mind shout till the decision maker decides

Gestalt Rules of Organization the operation of the brain is holistic, visual system groups and recognizes patters

Marr's Components of a theory 1) Summary of behavior 2) Representation of the underlying processes of behavior 3) Working model, usually using AI

Biederman's Recognition by Components need fundamental components for recognizing an object, will recognize the object quicker if shown at the same angle

Ungeleider and Mishkin Ablotion studies (cut up brains) discover that the temporal lobe is the WHAT, and the parietal lobe is the WHERE

3 stages of recognition 1) Encoding 2) Comparison 3) Decision Encoding takes the longest