PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Limbic System, Cerebral Cortex, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Paul broca: localization the thesis that different parts of the brain are responsible for different behaviours, broca"s area production in language (on the left side) Phineas gage got a spike through his eye and his brain while he was working on a railroad. Someone wrote the effect description very quickly after his accident. He could talk about his past, but it didn"t sound like he was talking about himself. He could learn to do skilled things (ride a bicycle): one type of learning was destroyed, the other was still intact, episodic memory, semantic memory, procedural memory. The goal of neuropsychological research is to study the brain to better understand psychological processes. Central nervous system the brain and the spine. Afferent nerve bres goes into the body (goes from the body to the brain) Efferent nerve bres goes out of the body (goes from the brain to the body) Nerves are axons (nerves that are not in your brain)
