PSYCH261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Verbal Behavior, Commissure, Monism
4 Apr 2016
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2016-01-08 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Later it was used to explain the mind (wundt wrote first textbook) Definition: the study of the physiology of the nervous system that supports the performance of complex behaviours. Corpus callosum = is the major inter-hemispheric connection. Some people with epilepsy with coordinated activity of nerve cells that is excessive and severe. They are bad when it involves both sides of the brain at once. Treating epilepsy: surgeon disconnects left half from right half of brain so there are damaging epilepsies. Descartes (cartesian math, philosopher, scientist: fundamental advance of trying to explain nervous system actions in simple terms for future learning, learned that the lens and eye inverted retinal image (ox and eye) Tan had a lesion from a stroke based on autopsy. Test model by experimentation: brain lesions, stimulation. 2-14, 24-26) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Dualism: belief in dual nature of reality.
