PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Franz Nissl, Thalamus, Karl Lashley
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The 10% myth: no evidence that there is any part of your brain that you do not use, mythical claim that brain has unknown origins. Study of the relation between behaviour and the activity of the brain: describe, explain, predict, and change behaviour, clinical neuropsychology concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury. Experimental neuropsychology how human behaviour arises from brain activity: includes explaining how patterns of behavioural impairments can be explained in terms of disruptions to the damaged neural components, also referred to as cognitive neuropsychology or cognitive neuroscience. Heart, mind, and brain: the early history of neuropsychology. Provides important insights into the development of the science and gives us information about what is left to discover. Illustrates instances in which researchers were wrong about the nature of brain-behaviour relationships. All matter was composed of four elements: fire, air, water, and earth.
