PSYC 2390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Reference Electrode, Cerebral Cortex, Occipital Lobe
14 Apr 2014
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The brain: the mind"s computer: brain: the structure responsible for mental functions such as memory, thoughts, language, and perceptions. Brief history of the physiological approach: early thinking of the physiology of the mind focused on determining the anatomical structures involved in the operation of the mind, early hypotheses about the seat of the mind. Aristotle stated that the hear was the seat of the mind and the soul. The greek physician galen saw human health, thoughts, and emotions as being determined by four different spirits flowing from the ventricles- cavities in the center of the brain. This idea was accepted all the way through the middle ages and into the renaissance in the 1500s and early. Then philosopher rene descartes, although still accepting idea of following spirits, specified the pineal gland, which was though to be located over the ventricles, as the seat of the soul: the brain as the seat of the mind.
