PSY 436LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henry Molaison, Camillo Golgi, Temporal Lobe
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Removed areas of the cortex of animals brains and studied resulting changes in behavior. Findings: no specialization for areas of the cortex. All animals seemed to have the same pattern of recovery regardless of area of cortex removed. Removal of cortex seemed to reduce all functions to some extent, but did not eliminate any function completely. Memory deficits were proportional to the amount of brain damage. Learning is distributed across all parts of the brain. Each successively higher level of the nervous system controls more complex aspects of behavior. Damage to the highest levels of brain hierarchy produce dissolution. Distributed hierarchy: every apart of the brain cam contribute to a behavior. Less focus on where a specific function was localized. More focus on what unique contribution each area of the brain makes to a specific function. The binding problem: the brain analyzes sensory events through multiple channels, yet we have a unified perception of our experience.
