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Terms / Concepts
- cognition
- primary visual cortex
- conscious and unconscious "levels"
- the film uses "knowledge"
- semantics
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- limbic nervous system
- "A set of structures in and around the midbrain,
forming a functional unit regulating motivational-emoional
types of behavior such as waking and sleeping, excitement
and quiescence, feeding, and mating" (Hilgard,
Introduction to Psychology)
- this is important for learning of new faces
- and it is important for emotional responses
- Cf., synaesthesia
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Notes:
- context gives meaning to visual detail
- recognizing pattern is important
- We attach names to things. "When something has a name, it means
that one has a perception category for the item, and that gives
it meaning. . . . The name gives structure and order
to the [perceptual] world."
- "If we can attach names, then it is that knowledge of
order that gives structure to our world."
- 19th century brain injury (1848) to Phineas
P. Gage led to personality change ("no longer Gage")
- John, the English man could recognize individual letters [on signs],
but couldn't read the words.
- but if he heard his wife, for example, in the railroad station,
he would recognize her -- so his hearing was not suffering
from the problem that his vision was
- The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat could recognize
individual letters, but couldn't read the words
- The Birmingham analysis sought (1) to check "recognition" (but
the Englishman could see and could even copy by drawing the picture
of the bird); their (2) second question was could the patient find
a name for the item (but the Englishman knew the names and
the definitions).
- The 3-D image literally doesn't exist in our heads; it is
created by the brain
- Larry does not have recognition at a conscious level, but he does
have recognition at an unconscious level. There is a difference
between having conscious knowledge of something, and having unconscious
knowledge of something.
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"Everyday Cognition" – perception . . . cognition
. . . and . . .
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Question: "How do Alterted States of Conscious
(ASCs) fit in?"
| cognition |
perception |
sensory |
vision |
| hearing |
| touch |
| taste |
| smell |
extra - sensory
(ESP) |
6th ? |
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Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge,"
in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.
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| Percepts
Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture
and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9.
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| The Formation
of Concepts
Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.),
Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 10.
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Cultures:
English
American
Individuals:
Paul
Broca ("Broca's
area" of the brain)
Phineas Gage
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References:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat : And Other Clinical
Tales -- Oliver W. Sacks
Questions:
What is re - cognition? And "pattern recognition?"
What is re - call? And "pattern recall?"
How does "phantom pain" enter into this?
How does this relate to odor research?
How would you compare this research with Dr. Edwin May's "Remote
Viewing" Houston research seen in the "ESP"
segment from Science Frontiers: Put to the Test?
with visual agnosia you have percepts without concepts
Cf., Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia (60 min., 1993, VC 2464) [From NOVA ]
with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?
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