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What is the key difference between dendrites and axons

One sends information and the other receives information.

The notion that every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible is called the law of

Pragnanz

What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing

source of information

Groups of neurons or structures that are connected within the nervous system are called ________.

neural networks

The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as

cognitive neuroscience

Brain imaging has made it possible to

determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes

Neurons that respond to specific qualities of objects, such as orientation,movement, and length are called

feature detectors

A synapse is

Gap between neurons

Taking clay and sand to create bricks, which are then used to build modular wall panels, which are then assembled to construct tall buildings, is similar to which of the following neural concepts?

hierarchical processing

In the mid-20th century, the study of the mind began using which technique or model inspired by Digital computers

information processing model

"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S. Postal service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of

top-down processing

The likelihood principle states that

we perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received