PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Grey Matter, Brain Injury, Andreas Vesalius

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Sohai

Document Summary

The soul produced and stored animal spirits in the ventricles that then communicated with the rest of the body. Renaissance: galen"s views remained to be the norm until the 18th century, vesalius then argued that there are three separate ventricles, the first one for receiving info from the senses, fantasy and imagination -> called the common sense. Second one: thought and judgment: third: memory. 17 t h and 18 t h centuries. Focus turned away from the ventricles to the solid parts of the brain and especially the difference between grey and white matter: the greyish part became known as the rind/cortex. Thomas will 1664: first one to implicate the cortex in memory and will functions. The breakthrough of the 19 t h century: discoveries overlap in time and some occurred shortly before/after psychology was founded as an independent discipline. Medicine for describing the precise mechanisms of the spinal reflex.