PSY 4130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Three-Phase Electric Power, Karl Lashley
3 May 2016
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Attempt to explain psychological phenomena in terms of their biological foundations. 2 observations that were contrary to switchboard conception of the brain, memories not localized but spread thru cortex: Loss of ability following destruction of parts of the cortex, related more to amount of destruction than location of destruction. Cortex works a unified whole, as gestlatists maintained. Any part of fnctal area of brain can perform the function associated w that area. If you destroy brain func, entire brain associated w that function need to be destroyed, if you left any part of area the function would still be maintained. Brain as integrated whole, not mechanistic switchboard. Physical changes in the brain associated w memory. Lashley sought engram in vain, not possible to locate the engram. Every environmental object we experience fires a complex package of neurons called cell assembly o. Interrelated neurons, reflect environmental events: when stimulated cell assemblies cause ideas of those events o o.
