Chapter Questions
Describe the idea of levels of analysis. How does this relate to answering the question "Why study cognitive neuroscience?"
How did early brain researchers describe the brain in terms of a nerve net? How does the idea of individual neurons differ from the idea of a nerve net?
Describe the research that led Cajal to propose the neuron doctrine.
Describe the structure of a neuron. Describe the synapse and neural circuits.
How are action potentials recorded from a neuron? What do these signals look like, and what is the relation between action potentials and stimulus intensity?
How has the question of how different perceptions can be represented by neurons been answered? Consider both research involving recording from single neurons and ideas about sensory coding.
How is neural representation for memory different from representation for perception? How is it similar?