Questions
Question 1
What does phrenology mean?
Question 2
Explain what rationalism and empiricism entails.
Question 3
What are the things cognitive neuroscience is a combination of?
Question 4
Why is there a major progress in cognitive neuroscience in the second half of the twentieth century?
Answers
Question 1
Phrenologists believed that specific brain areas were specialized for special functions. If a function were to be used more often, the related brain area would grow and cause a lump on the skull. By reading the lumps on the skull, phrenologists believed they could investigate someone's skills and personality traits.
Question 2
Rationalism states that knowledge comes from reasoning. From empirism came the idea of associationism: the opinion that all knowledge comes from sensory experience.
Question 3
The term cognitive neuroscience was introduced in the 1970s when ideas of neurology and psychology were brought together. Cognition means the process of understanding and neuroscience studies the organization and function of the nervous system.
Question 4
Through the emergence of non-invasive methods to investigate brain structure, metabolism and brain function, such as ECG, CAT, PET, MRI and fMRI.
Questions
Question 1
What is the difference between dendrites and axons?
Question 2
What is myelin and what does it take care of?
Question 3
What is the difference between depolarization and hyperpolarization?
Question 4
There are four criteria that a substance must meet to get the name neurotransmitter. Name these criteria.
Question 5
When neurotransmitters have done their job, they must be removed from the synaptic cleft. In what ways does this happen?
Question 6
What is the role
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