PSYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phineas Gage, Tabula Rasa, Local Extinction
18 Sep 2017
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Personal equation there are personal differences among people over which they have no control. Extirpation (ablation) flourens accurately reported on functions of cerebrum, midbrain, cerebellum, and medulla in pigeons. David kinnebrook makes a mistake: the importance of human observation. One mistake integral to new science of psychology. His observations were just slightly slower than his boss"s errors increased even more. Corkin friends with main doctor"s daughter lived across the street. Corkin tried to deny the prefrontal brain lesion because she didn"t want to admit she made a mistake; she doesn"t want someone to rewrite her story. Annesse = california brain specialist who sliced up henry" brain. The help lived on the third floor of cincinnati houses; cooked, cleaned, etc. Difficult to run a household in the 1870s. Put electrical impulses in her brain curious, but did not know how to perform the surgery. Mary"s wig (whale bone) wore away at her skull revealed part of her brain.
