PSYC 2050U Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Pineal Gland, Hebbian Theory
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Neuroscience scientific study of the nervous system. Behavioural neuroscience related to behaviour to bodily processes: understand the structures and functions of the brain that generate behaviour. An understanding of the brain"s role in behaviour has developed over centuries. Ancient egypt embalmed the body with special salts and oils and preserved organs such lungs, stomach, and intestines in alabaster jars in the tomb, while the heart was preserved in one"s body. The brain however was picked out through the nostrils and thrown away, therefore the brain was not seen as a significant organ back in these times. There is little or no mention of the brain in the quran, old testament, and new. Aristotle was the most prominent scientist of ancient greece and proposed that mental capacities were at place in the heart: faint-hearted, heartless, hardhearted, etc. Hippocrates suggested that aristotle"s view was incorrect and that the brain brought emotion, perception, and thought.
