PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
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Lecture 3 - textbook notes: neuropsychology (modules 4-6, 11) Although we ind it convenient to talk separately of biological and psychological inluences on behaviour, we need to remember: to think, feel, or act without a body would be like running without legs. German physician franz ganz proposed that phrenology, studying bumps on the skull, could reveal a person"s mental abiliies and character traits. Although its iniial popularity faded, phrenology succeeded in focusing atenion on the localizaion of funcion - the idea that various brain regions have paricular funcions. Within litle more than the past century, researchers seeking to understand the biology of the mind have discovered that: o o o o o. A month these are nerve cells that conduct electricity and talk to one another by sending chemical messages across a iny gap that separates them. Speciic brain systems serve speciic funcions (though not the funcions gall supposed)
