PSYC 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jean Pierre Flourens, Secondary Source, Color Theory
30 May 2016
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: earliest known writing on the brain {effect of poppy plant/opium} even though we didn"t associate brain w/ ideas we do now, it was always known that if brain injured, there would be problems {papyrus w/ brain injury} : aristotle places soul in the heart (brain = air conditioner ) Middle ages: church ban on human dissection, slowed exploration down da vinci 14-1500s drawings of body along w/ descriptions didn"t publish them so weren"t helpful at the time. Vesalius 1500s (after da vinci) published medical diagrams/pictures of muscle/skeleton out doing activities. Rene descartes 15-1600s diff b/t physical brain & the mind. Mind brain dualism (separate entities) brain = material; operates like a machine. Mind = immaterial; separates us from animals. Leeuwenhoek microscope (1630s-1720s) previously invisible things are now visible (microscopic things in pond water) contributes to the idea that now we can see things in our body that we previously couldn"t localization of function.
