EE-Learning
Problem solving
Catogry:
Science & Engineering
Subject:
Health & Medicine
Course:
Executive Systems Of The Brain
Lecture List
Theories of Emotion
Three components of emotion and the universal emotions
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) and physiologic markers of emotion
Emotions: cerebral hemispheres and prefrontal cortex
Emotions: limbic system
Alzheimer's disease and Korsakoff's syndrome
Aging and cognitive abilities
Decay and interference
Long term potentiation and synaptic plasticity
Memory reconstruction, source monitoring, and emotional memories
Retrieval: Free recall, cued recall, and recognition
Retrieval cues
Encoding strategies
Information processing model: Sensory, working, and long term memory
Hypnosis and meditation
Sleep disorders
Dreaming
Sleep stages and circadian rhythms
States of consciousness
Language and the brain: Aphasia and split-brain patients
Theories of language development: Nativist, learning, interactionist
Theories of language and cognition
Theories of selective attention
Divided attention, selective attention, inattentional blindness, & change blindness
Aging and cognitive abilities
Intelligence
Semantic networks and spreading activation
Decision making
Problem solving
Piaget's stages of cognitive development