PSYC 4008 : PSYC 4008 Test 2
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Summary of chapter 3: the physiological context: early research on the nervous system. Heroic science in the age of enlightenment: the enlightenment was a period during the 18th and 19th centuries when great faith existed in the ability of science and human reason to produce truthful knowlsdge about he natuaral world. Magendie concluded that the posterior root controlled sensation, while the anterior root controlled motor movements. Bell made similar observations, but was not as systematic as magendie. The role of experience is central to perception. the raw inormatoin processd by teh sensory systems is meaingless by itself, but takes on meaning only when a particular combination of sensory events becomes associated with speicifc consequences. Broca"s area : german neurologist carl wernicke studied patients who could speech nonsensically, and had difficulty comprehending others, which is sensory aphasia, by developing the procedure of electrically stimulating the surface of the cortex,
