PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal, Luigi Galvani, Golgi'S Method
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Measured and drew facial expressions occurring at each piece of experience. 4 bodily humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile. Materialism- rational behavior can be fully explained by the workings of the brain. Disected a fron accidentally touched metal and the frog leg twitched (frankenstein inspiration) Showed muscles contract by being sent electrical signals. Animal electricity- animal tissues have intrinsic electricity that is involved in physiological processes. Franz joseph gall (1758-1828: the brain is the organ of the mind, (suedoscience) phrenology- discipline concerned with determining personality and character based on the detailed shape of the skull. Specific areas of cortex have certain mental faculties. Natural selection- differential success in the reproduction of different characteristics results from the interaction of organisms with their environment. Developed the golgi stain (named golgi apparatus after him in cells) Reticular theory- gray matter is made up from single, connected network. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine: 1906.
