01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oligodendrocyte, Brainstem, Motor Neuron

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:310
• Professor: Professor Mayhew

Document Summary

For clickers: press channel, then 2, then 7, and then channel once again. Wasn"t sure if brain or heart was cause of emotional and other types of reactions. Due to religious taboos, didn"t have good knowledge of anatomy until 16th century. Different parts of brain were in charge of different types of actions. Gall was annoyed with other medical students (better at memorizing) Remember them with bulgy eyes: place for memory was behind the eyes. The kind of level of reasoning that was behind these maps. Different parts of personality were based in different parts of brain. Could tell by looking at the skull and the bumps of the skull. Phrenology was quite common in first half of 19th century. Mentioned in jane eyre: references to bumps in the heads showing that the person had a very strong character. Broca"s area (french) heard a lecture that speculated that motor function, specifically speech. States that speech is in the broca"s area.