Recall is a routine part of human mental activity.
In contrast, the symbols involved in human mental activity presumably have intrinsic meaning or intentionality.
Functional MRI allows scientists to generate detailed maps of brain areas that underlie human mental activities in health and disease.
Second, she points to history, arguing that our understanding of human mental illness has always been shaped by our understanding of animals and their minds.
Professor Zajonc repeatedly explored the place in the human mental makeup where emotion butts up against cognition, partly in an effort to determine which influences which more strongly.
But he imagined a day when a machine could simulate human mental abilities so well as to raise the question of whether it was actually capable of thought.
Brain imaging, which was scarcely on the public's radar in 1990, became the most prestigious way of understanding human mental life.
Together, these techniques and their applications hold great promise for understanding the machinery of human mental processes, with hope for treating patients suffering from brain injury and disease.
Neural networks are at the forefront of cognitive computing, which is intended to have information technology perform some of the more-advanced human mental functions.
Suppose that the functional relations that functionalists claim are constitutive of human mental life are ultimately definable in terms of firing patterns among assemblages of neurons.
The book dismisses tabula rasa notions of human mental development, citing a large body of research indicative of the determinist role played by genes.
