PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Socalled, Functional Neuroimaging, Wilhelm Wundt
Document Summary
Teaches us how we think, feel, develop, learn, love, interact, and grow. Has a long past, but a short history. Later philosophers would soon find the answers. Suggested that the mind and body were distinct entities that were casually linked in a dualistic relationship. The mind controlled the movements of the mechanical body; the mind in turn received information about the outside world through the sense organs. This dualistic view became influential to the work of physiologists. Innovations in technology helped to make the 1800s a particularly exciting period for physiologists who had new tools to explore and make significant discoveries about the brain. Muller proposed that like an electric current flowing along a metal conductor, the messages transmitted by nerves were coded as electrical impulses that travelled along different channels. He also proposed that different areas of the brain serve different functions.
