ENG EK 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hemispatial Neglect, Phineas Gage, Agnosia

• School: Boston University
• Department: Engineering Core
• Course: ENG EK 131
• Professor: Lucia Vaina

Document Summary

Contralateral function (right arm controlled by left side) The brain is the organ of the mind. The mind is composed of a number of faculties: emotional & cognitive. Each faculty is associated with a specific area. The better developed the faculties, the more developed the brain areas. The strength of a faculty can be determined by the shape of the skull. Emphasize roll of the brain in investigating the ming. Emphasis on improving faculties led to improvements in education. By removing this section of the brain, behavioral changes can be seen. Amount of disability is proportional to amount of ablation. When you take one part out, you won"t understand why each change happens, just that something happened. Need to understand the function of each section to understand the change effectively. Studying the behavioral and mental effects of brain injury. Studying brains of mentally disabled after death. Defined by cell size, density of layers, density of myelinated axons.