PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Broca, Hebbian Theory, Luigi Galvani
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Neuroscience in context: does listening to classical music make you smarter, rauscher et al. (1993, university students, 10 minutes of mozart, 1998 governor of georgia provides every child with classical music improvement in spatial reasoning. Re(cid:395)uie(cid:373) fo(cid:396) the (cid:862)moza(cid:396)t effect(cid:863) (chabris and steele, 1999: (cid:374)ot the mozart effe(cid:272)t; rather a(cid:374) (cid:858)e(cid:374)jo(cid:455)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t arousal(cid:859) listening to a passage from stephen king can result in the same kind of improvement. The science of the brain and behaviour spans, past, present and the future: early egyptians and greeks, including aristotle thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities. Mentalism: aristotle (350 bc, kindhearted, openhearted fainthearted, heartless. Elnaz bayandor: hippocrates wrote of the brain as the seats of the thoughts and the emotions, gale(cid:374)(cid:859)s e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) treati(cid:374)g (cid:271)rai(cid:374) i(cid:374)jured gladiators led hi(cid:373) to propose that (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour results from connections between the brain and the nerves. Renaissance artist and scientist leonardo da vinci pioneered anatomical drawings, including the use of cross-sections.
