PSY393H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontal Lobe, Childhood Amnesia, Trepanning
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12:05 pm: mapping on behavioral functions to the brain. What is neuropsychology: definition, the study of the relation between human brain function and behavior. Intersection between human brain + beh: don"t talk about how, mostly talk about where, mapping type of studies, psychology --> behavior, biology --> physiological system. Intersection --> try to map these on together, to try to understand how work together: overall question can be approached using a multitude of approaches, normal brain function, how does the brain do: Language: extremely complicated + goes beyond neuropsych, perception. Incredibly complex affected by: attention, history, attention, how tuning in to certain aspects of env + excluded other stimuli in env, emotion, highly integrated with all above aspects, one strat is development. In humans have to be much more creative to understand how the brain works: central focus, the dev of a sci of human beh based on the function of the human brain, abnormal brain function.