Psychology 3224A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phineas Gage, Prefrontal Cortex, Cerebral Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3224A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Hoshooley

Document Summary

It showed how there is two separate visual systems. her could give physical attributes: brain as the organ of behaviour, introducing major ideas related to our understanding of the relationship between brain and behaviour. Cerebral cortex cortex is bark in latin. All info from outside sensory system and internal organs. Sulci creases between gyri ; large ones called fissures. Cerebral cortex constitutes most of the forebrain (cid:0) mediates cognitive functions. 500 bc _cardiac hypothesis: galen ~129-199 ad brain hypothesis, gladiator brain damage, nerves from sense organs go to brain not heart. Brain vs. mind (nonmaterial: aristotle and descartes and dualism (mind and brain separate but interacting) Rene descartes: proposed site of interactions between mind and body, pineal body, cortex was not seen as functioning neural tissue but as an elaborate covering for the pineal body, no major changes in behaviour observed, biorhythms. Species/structures evolve through gradual change over time. The brain and its products are also subject to evolution.