LING 390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pineal Gland, John Hughlings Jackson, Dyslexia
23 Dec 2015
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Slum party on thursday at 5 at the ling lounge. According to greeks, the brain was teh seat of the mind, and the substance of thought is the cerebrospinal fluid. The ventricles were the focus of theories relating the mind and brain. Aristotle believed that the heart was the organ of the mind. Our body does things unconsciously (breathing, heart beat). this is reflexive action; stimulated nerves release animal spirits which caused nerves and muscles to act. He hypothesized that intelligent action (thinking) was due to the interaction between fluid in the ventricles and brain tissue itself (modulated by the soul"s effect on the pineal gland) 19th century: what is the relationship between specific behaviours and the brain. How to test localization? lesion studies (animals and dead people) Phrenology: no statistical analysis, the faculties referred to are difficult to define, the outer skull does not represent the inner skull/the brain.
