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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