PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Psy, Cytoarchitecture, Paul Broca
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The process of knowing (i. e. , what arises from awareness, perception, and reasoning) Cognitive neuroscience the combined study of the mind and the brain. Localizationist view specific processes, such as language or memory, are localized within circumscribed brain regions // broca had a patient who lost ability to speak besides the word. "tantantan" and broca found damage to "posterior part of the third frontal convolution in the left hemisphere" Aggregate field view cognitive processes are distributed throughout the brain // flourens- no matter where he lesioned pigeon brains, they always recovered. Phrenology the brain as a muscle // franz joseph gall and johann spurtzheim. Broca"s area involved in speech production because paul broca found damage to patients posterior lobe in the brain. Wernicke observed variety of aphasic patients whose brain damage resulted in language input deficits; concluded that damage to different parts of brain resulted in different language disorders; predicted conduction aphasia.
