PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gilbert Ryle, Clinical Neuropsychology, Johann Spurzheim

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Claim that humans only use 10% of their brain was tested by marie-jean-pierre flourens and. Karl lashley who both performed experiments that involved damaging or removing large portions of brain of animals. Following these procedures, the animals were observed, and often the animals could still perform basic functions even when they had sustained injury to as much as 90% of their brain. It is an attempt to describe, explain, and predict behaviour. Neuropsychology is also the study of behaviour; neuropsychologists attempt to describe, explain, predict, and change behaviour. However, neuropsychology is the study of the relation between behaviour and the activity of the brain. Clinical neuropsychology: the branch of neuropsychology concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury. Experimental neuropsychology (a. k. a. cognitive neuropsychology or cognitive neuroscience): focuses on how human behaviour arises from brain activity, which includes explaining how patterns of behavioural impairments can be explained in terms of disruptions to the damaged neural components.

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