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15 Cards in this Set
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Hebb, Donald O.
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Proposed that psychological
phenomena might be produced by brain activity. |
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Mendel, Gregor
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Theories of heredity.
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Descarte, Renee
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Mind and brain control behavior.
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Muller, Johannes
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Observed that although all nerves
carry the same basic message electrical impulse – we perceive the messages of different nerves in different ways. |
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Gall, Franz Joseph
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Theory of phrenology.
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Flourens, Pierre
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Experimental abolition.
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Broca, Paul
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Applied the principle of experimental ablation to the human brain.
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Fritsch, Gustav and Hitzig, Eduard
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They found that electrical stimulation of different portions of a specific region of the brain caused contraction of specific muscles on the opposite side of the body.
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Helmholtz, Hermann von
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Devised a theory of color vision and color blindness, and studied audition, music, and many physiological processes.
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Wernicke, Carl
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Discovered an area in the temporal lobe, which, when lesioned, led to sensory deficit in language, i.e., the patient was unable to recognize words, although he or she could hear sounds quite well.
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Krause, Feodor
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His mapping of the motor areas of the cortex were remarkably accurate, and provided a background for more modern investigations in patients with local anesthesia.
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Ferrier, Sir David
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Stimulated with electricity the cortical gyri of animals and was able to detect 15 different areas related to the precise control of movement.
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Darwin, Charles
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Natural selection, evolution, and functionalism.
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Cerebral Cortex
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outermost layer of the cerebral hemisphere. Is able to analyze sensory data, perform memory functions, learn new information, form thoughts and make decisions.
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Left Hemisphere
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Systematic, logical interpretation of information. Interpretation and production of symbolic information: language, mathematics, abstraction and reasoning.
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