PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franz Joseph Gall, Golgi'S Method, Wilder Penfield
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Where is the mind: empedocles of acragas. Cardiac hypothesis (heart gives rise to mind: alcamaeon of croton. Brain hypothesis (brain gives rise to the mind) Reflexes (automatic responses where signals does not need to go to the brain) Materialism (brain is the material of the mind: pierre flourens. Affects the animal differently based on lesion site: karl lashlet. Location of lesion did not affect performance: franz josef gall. Special cognitive abilities are located in spefic region. If certain part is more developed, it will create a bum in the head (which is obviously wrong because the brain is protected by the skull: wilder penfield. Stimulated different parts of patient"s brain during brain surgery. Different parts gave rise to different reaction of the patient. Law (doctrine) of specific nerve energies: hermann con helmholtz. Speed of neural transmission (27 m s-1: santiago ramon y cajal. Used golgi stain to prove that most of the neurons are not connected.
