PSY493H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Brain Damage, Neurology, Behaviorism
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Thomas willis used the case to get money and write his ideas. First anatomist to link specific brain damage to specific behavioural deficits i. Drew these conclusions after treating patients throughout their lives and autopsying after deaths. Created drawings of the human brain that remained the most accurate for. In summary, he set in motion that ideas and knowledge base to develop cognitive neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience: based off of cognition, process of knowing i. e. what arises from awareness, perception and reasoning. Neuroscience: the study of how the nervous system is organized and functions. Understanding how the functions of the physical brain can yield the thoughts, ideas, and beliefs of a seemingly intangible mind. Natural selection: evolutionary perspective, our brains were designed through trial and error and made of living cells, not by engineers, over history, life was given over to practical matter of survival. Brain mechanisms that enable us to generate theories are already inside our heads heads.
