PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Supervenience, Emergence, Sarah Scott
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Overview: the brain is the organ of the mind. Methods in cognitive neuroscience: animal models, behavioural studies, brain injuries and surgical intervention, neuroimaging, correctional modeling. Gabrielle giffords: suffered brain damage from a gun shot, demonstrate plasticity of the brain, 3yrs later cannot form full sentences, still amazing recovery. Phrenology is feeling the shape of the skull and describing the personality based on the bumps of the brain. Psychograph is a machine that measures the bumps on the lead. Phrenology is debunked but. : underlying hypothesis has been worked on. Large region removed caused more damage no matter where the damage was. Damage was based on the extent of the damage not the localization: lashleys laws. Learning and memory depends on the total mass of brain tissue remaining. If brain damage occurs another section of the brain can take over that sections function due to the plasticity of the brain.
