PS267 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Donald O. Hebb, Tabula Rasa, Korbinian Brodmann
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Galen of permages: discussed damaged brain, found several patients get their head clobbered and loose ability to speak. Thomas willis: first to link brain anatomy to behavior. Paul broca: localization, patient tam suffered brain damage, ca(cid:374) o(cid:374)ly say (cid:862)ta(cid:373)(cid:863, perform an autopsy and found a massive brain region broca"s regio(cid:374) (left hemisphere, broca"s regio(cid:374) = speech productio(cid:374) From macro to micro structure: some progress towards understanding the functional role of the large brain. Jan purkinjie: first person to describe a neuro cell, purkinjie cell of the cerebellum. Korbinian brodmann: brod(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:374)"s areas, labelled cell bodies by stain (with numbers and different symbols) Heinholtz: measure speed of action potentials, when you decide to move your eyes, part of the brain generating movement, send signal to visual cortex to make a visual image for it. Two path in the 1920s: behaviorism, argued that the brain is a blank slate, 40 years" detour, unproductive, american, ultimately wrong, neuropsychology, canadian, ultimately right!
