Introducing Cognitive Science
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| Cognition | A variety of higher mental processes such as thinking, perceiving, imagining, speaking, acting, and planning.
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| Cognitive neuroscience | Aims to explain cognitive processes in terms of brain-based mechanisms.
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| Mind-body problem | The problem of how a physical substance (the brain) can give rise to our feelings, thoughts and emotions (our mind).
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| Dualism | The belief that mind and brain are made up of different kinds of substance.
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| Dual-aspect theory | The belief that mind and brain are two levels of description of the same thing.
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| Reductionism | The belief that mind-based concepts will eventually be replaced by neuroscientific concepts.
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| Phrenology | The failed idea that individual differences in cognition can be mapped on to differences in skull shape.
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| Functional specialization | Different regions of the brain are specialized for different functions.
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| Cognitive neuropsychology | The study of brain-damaged patients to inform theories of normal cognition.
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| Information processing | An approach in which behavior is described in terms of a sequence of cognitive stages.
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| Interactivity | Later stages of processing can begin before earlier stages are complete.
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