ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gustav Fritsch, Paul Broca, White Matter
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Task 9: the brain: lobes and hemispheres, crevices and bumps. Learning goals: development of neuroscience, how does neuroscience contribute to psychology. Another question galen had to solve was how the brain communicated with the rest of the body. Ideas: did not think the brain itself was important for reason or emotion but for the soul residing inside the brain. The soul lived in the solid parts and produced and stored animal spirits in the apertures in the middle of the brain (the ventricles) Thomas willis (1621-1675) published an influential atlas of the brain in which he attached more importance to the solid parts of the brain. Albrecht von haller (1708) stimulated the nerves of live animals in an effort to discover the pathways for perception and motor action established the experimental method in neurophysiology. This work set the stage for the explosion of experimental and clinical research of the nineteenth century.
