PSYB65H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - PSYB65: Measuring Brain & Behaviour
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Lecture 6: human investigative techniques know for midterm. Behavioural neuroscience: study of the biological basis of behaviour. Includes the study of both humans and laboratory animals: major challenge is to develop methods for studying both normal and abnormal behaviour, ethology: the study of animal behaviour. Neuropsychology: study of the relations between brain function and behavior, origins: paul broca discovered the link between specific damage located in the left frontal lobe region and language difficulties. Measuring brain and behavior increasingly includes noninvasive imaging, complex neuroanatomical measurement, and sophisticated behavioral analyses. Brain lesions: used (cid:271)y karl lashley (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) to fi(cid:374)d lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory in the brain, ablation: removal or destruction of tissue we want to examine and then seeing what happens. Stereotaxic apparatus: a surgical device that permits a researcher or a neurosurgeon to target a specific part of the brain for ablation, use with animals and humans. The stimulation affects a neural circuit involving both eating and pleasure.
