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19 Cards in this Set
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Blindsight
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Ability to accurately reach something that someone can't see
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Corpus Callosum
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Bridge connecting 2 sides of brain
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Split-Brain Operation
-what is it and why is it done? |
Surgeon severs the Corpus Callosum, disconnecting 2 sides of brain.
Used to treat Epilepsy |
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Unilateral Neglect
-what is it and what is it caused by..? |
Syndrome where people ignore things located to their left and the left sides of objects.
Caused by damage to the right side of the parietal lobe. |
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Rubber Hand Illusion
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If a rubber hand is placed where our left hand should be, we begin to react as if the rubber hand is our own.
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Scientific Explanation
"Generalization" |
a conclusion based upon many observations of the same thing
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Scientific Explanation
"Reduction" |
a conclusion based upon the elementary processes that make it up.
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Brain vs. Heart
~Hippocrates ~Aristotle ~Galen |
Hippocrates - Brain
Aristotle - Heart Galen - Brain |
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Rene Descartes
-defined...? -Dualist/Monist? -cause of movement in humans? |
-defined 'reflex' as an automatic response in direct response to a stimulus
-Dualist BUT believed in brain-mind connection (monist view) -thought humans had a pineal body filled with fluid that tilted side to side when movement was desired. |
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Galvani + electrical impulses
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discovered that electrical impulses through nerves were what caused muscles to contract
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Johannes Muller + Doctrine of specific nerve energies
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All nerves carry the same message and that sensory information is specified by the different nerves and what part of the brain they go to
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Brain Ablation
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Research done by observing what behaviors can no longer be performed when certain parts of the brain are damaged
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Paul Broca
-what type of research done on humans |
Performed brain ablation on humans
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Gustav Fritsch & Eduard Hitzig
-tests on dogs? -discovered? |
sent electrical currents through dogs' brains
-discovered Primary Motor Cortex |
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Cynodont
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Ancestor of all mammals
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measure of intelligence in the brain...
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# of nuerons/gram of tissue
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Neoteny
-what is it? |
slowing process of maturation allowing for further development of larger brains
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Dualism
-believes? |
Body is physical
Mind is not |
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Monism
-believes? |
Mind is produced by the nervous system aka the brain
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