Cognitive science

As a learning method, I enter each course of an open mind. This learning modality allows me to focus on each objective and its manifestations. I observed this process during my Master’s program and I kept note through discernment and consciousness in my daily journey. During the prelude, the title is what attracted me to apprehend this course had something to do change. When trying to complete and absorb my assignments, I had a bit of trouble, until week three. Throughout this time, a lot of the…

RSA ANIMATE-CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms with RSA animate sheds the light on overview of history and development of public education in United States, as well as critical analysis of fundamental issues within the system. The presentation generates the idea that the importance of public education is mainly for two aspects are economic and cultural. Economic requires education because the current children can assume the future trend of the economy. Its…

"The First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich" The mind is a powerful creation. It has the ability to dream up some of the greatest inventions, and it has dreamed some of the greatest horrors. How we think is critical to our success, but not in the way most people believe. It is not about thinking positive thoughts. This won 't change our situation. The secret here is to learn to think about the things we want, and not think about the things we don 't. Here are seven principles for…

Paul Pierre Broca talked about ‘le grand lobe limbique’ in 1878 or the great limbic lobe and used the term “limbic” (from the Latin limbus for border) to the rounded rim of the cortex which also has the cingulate and the parahippocampalgyri. However, its supposed role in emotion was elaborated by the American physician, James Papez in 1937 in the influential paper titled ‘A proposed mechanism of emotion’. This anatomical model is called the Papez circuit.[2] In the year of 1948 scientist…

Recently, the Hanson Robotics, an artificial intelligence company in the United States, has attempted to create an AI with developed social skills. They have developed a social robot, named Sophia. She is able to process visual data, see people's faces, process conversational data, as well as emotional data. She could use these data to form relationships and socialize with humans. As for physicians coping with health care in hospitals, AI may replace physicians in some areas. For example,…

psychologist Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory exclusive to the practice of psychology. However, this date is still disregarded as the beginning of psychology. Despite the major impact of the laboratory on the science. Persons' concerns are based on the influences to science prior to the laboratory. A number of great persons would have been very influential prior to Wundt's opening. These persons include outstanding philosophers such as Rene…

We use mental models every day of our lives without even knowing it. In this paper I will attempt to expose how we use mental models in our everyday lives. First, I will present my own interpretation of mental models. After conveying my own definition, I will provide examples from my own life of mental models at work. Mental models are our own personal beliefs and ideas that we have in everyday life. These beliefs and ideas can be conscious or unconscious. A great way of looking at mental…

Studying the human body is an intimate academic exercise – my fingers move in response to messages sent through my nervous system and words appear on the page. Either side of the divide - the neuromuscular junction In order for motor neurons to communicate with the skeletal muscle fibres of my fingers, a synapse is formed between them, known as a neuromuscular junction. The neural and muscular sides of the NMJ have different roles to play. The motor neuron’s axon terminal, along which nerve…

In “A conversation with Einstein’s Brain,” written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, the authors write about a conversation occurring between tortoise and Achilles in which they discuss about a book containing all of the neurons and pathways symbolized by abbreviations and words. These fully functional neurons written as abbreviations represent Einstein’s brain, and thus, the book is Einstein’s brain. During the conversation, Achilles struggles to understand the concept. Thus,…

I usually would not want hear other people’s thoughts because it is a complete invasion of privacy. In a world where it seems like everything is being watched or recorded, a person’s thoughts are all he or she has to him or herself. I am so paranoid that I actually censor my thoughts when surrounded by others because I have the irrational fear that people can read my mind and will think that I’m a complete psychopath. Even if a person is thinking about the reasons why he or she despises me or if…