PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Frontal Lobe, Aphasia, Neurophysiology
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Localization: behaviors are mappable to other parts of the brain. Holism: it is impossible and always will be impossible to map specific locations in the brain because what they are looking at is the whole brain working together. Patients suffering from aphasia ( trouble speaking) Wernicke aphasia: seems to be able to speak normally, can not understand anything complicated. Found post-mortem damage to specific areas of the brain. Frontal cortex: lateral view (view from the side) Frontal lobe: ventral view (view from the bottom up) 1868 (20 years later) john harlow argued that the cognitive and behavioral changes in gage indicted an area of focal damage in the frontal lobe. How much more profound and surprising to think that structures in the brain specialized for planning and executing personally and socially suitable behavior or rationality (behavior can be adjusted dependent on surrounding) Gage"s case became used for the holism debate.
