Psychology 3224A/B : Psych 3227 – Class Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3224A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Hoo Shooley

Document Summary

Brain vs mind: aristotle and descartes and dualism, mind and brain separate but interacting, rene descartes, proposed site of interaction between mind and body pineal body. Cortex was not seen as functioning neural tissue but as elaborate covering for pineal body. Darwin & common descent of brain: species/structures evolve through gradual change over time, brain and its products also subject to evolution, mind = collective functions of the brain. 1: brain produces behavior, specific parts of the brain produce specific behaviors. Localization and lateralization of language: paul broca and the language area specifically on the left side, hypothesized he would find this based on previous work, broca"s aphasia/wernicke"s aphasia. Distributed systems: current trend behaviors cognitions and perceptions are encoded/processed in many areas of the brain over distributed systems. John hughlings jackson: question is not where a given attribute is localized, but what special contribution each part of cortex makes to a particular attribute.