GenPsych Course 2020, Thinking 2: The Neural CPU
Channel: Randall O'Reilly
Date: 2020-11-12

Lecture 2 of 9 for Chapter 7: Thinking, Control, Intelligence
Principles of Psychology & Neuroscience Textbook: https://PrinciplesOfPsych.org

Even though brains are massively parallel systems that work nothing like serial computers at the neural level, the human brain can do sequential, complex, open-ended information processing that approximates the universal computational abilities of a Turing machine, leveraging our natural language, and the contributions of the prefrontal cortex to keep us on task and maintain active memory.