PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Long-Term Memory, Wgta (Tv), Animal Cognition
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Frontal lobe damage (prefrontal damage: historical perspective, they thought that the front part of the brain is for intellectual functioning came from gall . Phrenology bumps on the head= origin of those emotions felt the skull: gall thought intelligence was at the frontal portion of the brain, the first neuroscientist who tested this was jacobson. Took some monkeys and removed the prefrontal area found that the monkeys had a problem in delayed response task with wgta wisconsin general testing. If these animals could see the solution to the problem and perform right away they could solve the problem. If there was a delay they could not perform. The monkeys would see the banana, try to reach for it, look for something and by the time they found something, they forgot why they needed the stick. Jacobson initially thought that this must be a loss in short term memory capacities.
