PSY 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Karl Lashley, Cerebral Cortex, Neuromuscular Junction
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D: plato (400) & galen (150) were accredited as rst individuals to study the mind and brain. I: plato was among the rst to locate and relate the mind to the brain, even though his student. Aristotle thought the mind was in the heart. Galen was a surgeon who believed that the brain received sensory information and then produced motor responses. M: despite the basis of their ndings, they began the preliminary step towards understanding the human body and its relations to the brain this relates to all later research and studies of the brain. E: when you think in your head or when you"re reading books, its almost like your thoughts are literally in your head when you try to associate where they come from. D: johannes muller (1825) studied the idea that different sensations arose from different pathways in the body - fundamental idea was right except for his reference to energies in the body.
