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20 Cards in this Set
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Alcmaeon |
Believed that mental processes were located in the brain. Interested in anatomy and began dissecting animals to find that our senses are located to our brain. |
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Empedocles |
Believed that mental processes are located in the heart |
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Galen |
Observed injured gladiators and tampered with their brains |
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Mind-Body Problem |
The argument whether the mind and body are joined or separate entities |
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Descates |
Believed in dualism |
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Dualism |
Where the mind and body are believed to interact via the pineal gland which enabled the brain to produce conscious sensations |
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Mind-Brain Problem |
The relationship between what the brain does and ur awareness of our own existence in our external and internal environments |
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Franz Gall |
Proposed the idea of phrenology, that different parts of the brain have different fuctions |
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Brain Localisation |
Means a particular part of the brain is responsible for a particular behaviour |
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Ablation |
Disabling, destroying or removing selected brain tissue and then assessing the subsequent changes in behavior |
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Electronic Stimulation of the Brain |
A small electrified fine wire is inserted into or placed onto a specific area of the brain to stimulate a response |
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Pierre Flourens |
Began brain ablation experiments |
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Criticisms of Flourens |
Very imprecise surgical techniques and bad reporting |
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Karl Lashley |
Found that learning and memory is a holistic brain process through ablation experiments |
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Mass Action |
Large areas of the brain function as a whole in complex functions, and if part is destroyed then loss of function will depend on the amount of brain cortex that is destroyed. |
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Equipotentiality |
Any healthy part of the cortex can take over the function of an injured part |
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Split brain surgery |
Severing of the Corpus Callosum, separating the two brain hemispheres. |
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Nueroimaging |
A technique that captures an image of the brain |
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CT and MRI scans |
Structural nueroimaging |
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PET and fMRI scans |
Functional nueroimaging |
