PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Free Recall, Discriminant Function Analysis, Telemedicine
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Conceptual tool with which first gen of neuroscientists laid out basic schema of brain behaviour relationships that hold today. War damaged brains gave impetus to development of clinical neuropsych. Need for screening and diagnosis for those during first world war and for their rehab afterwards created large scale demands for neuropsych programs. Consequential wars: promoted development of many talented neuropsychologists and of increasingly sophisticated techniques. Mental measurement specialists produced multitude of examination techniques to screen recruits for military and assist in educational evaluations. Rave(cid:374)"s progressive matrices, wechsler, i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)ce scales a(cid:374)d wide ra(cid:374)ge achieve(cid:373)e(cid:374)t tests. Experimental studies of cognitive functions in humans and other animals. Human studies of cognition mainly dealt with normal subjects (college students who sometimes earned course credits for their cooperation) Clinical reports of brian injured (soldiers and stroke patients: what happens when one part of brain is missing or compromised. Much to learn about lesions for cognitive functions. Dynamic imaging techniques: neural foundations of behaviour.
