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1 Cognitive neuroscience: the toolbox David Poeppel, NYU

2 Hand scanner Phrenology (bad idea) Organology (good idea)
Franz Josef Gall

3 Two enduring ideas deriving from Gall
• Faculty psychology The mind has a ‘parts list.’ • Experience-dependent plasticity Using the parts changes their neuronal realization.

4 The ‘where’-question is an important intermediate step -- the homework problem.
To begin to address ‘how’ questions, the focus needs to be shifted to coding and computation. The next wave of phrenology will be a “computational organology”.

5 Phineas Gage, 1848 Before: responsible, well-mannered, well-liked, efficient worker, pious After: capricious, impulsive, irreverent, hypersexual Damage involved VMPFC

6 These books are easy [CP Opi [IP PRO to read ti]]
Broca Broca’s Area 1861

7 Relating brain and behavior: the one-slide historical retrospective
• Behavior - psychophysics - judgments old and new • Interfering with function old - deficit-lesion data/neuropsychology (1860s) new - transcranial magnetic stimulation (1990s) • Electromagnetic monitoring old - EEG/ERP (1930s) newer - clinical intracranial recordings (1950s) newest - MEG (1980s) • Computational modeling middle aged (1960s) • Hemodynamic monitoring oldest of the new - PET (1980s) new and dominant - fMRI (1990s) middling but renewed - NIRS (2000s)

8 Spatial scale Time scale

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10 resonance imaging (fMRI)
Positron emission tomography (PET) Excellent spatial resolution (~1-2mm) Poor temporal resolution (~1sec) Hemodynamic techniques Electro-magnetic Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Non-invasive recording from human brain (Functional brain imaging) Electro- encephalography (EEG) Reasonable spatial resolution (~1cm) Excellent temporal resolution (<1msec) Magneto- encephalography (MEG) D. Poeppel , A. Braun et al.

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