PSYC 4008 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Interference Theory, Carl Wernicke, Vladimir Bekhterev
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Summary of chapter 3: the physiological context: early research on the nervous system. Heroic science in the age of enlightenment: the enlightenment was a period during the 18th and 19th centuries when great faith existed in the ability of science and human reason to produce truthful knowlsdge about he natuaral world. Magendie concluded that the posterior root controlled sensation, while the anterior root controlled motor movements. Bell made similar observations, but was not as systematic as magendie. Doctrine of the specific energies of nerves, but credit was given to johannes mueller because he elaborated and developed more fully. Johannes mueller wrote, handbook of human physiology (1840) . This made helmholtz want to discover how to measure impulse speed. Wrote three-volume, massive handbook of physiological optics trichromatic theory of color vision, eye contains three kinds of color receptors, red-green-blue, when u mix colors with these, they can make 1000s of colors.
