PSYO 2470 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Frontal Lobe, Paul Broca, Gustav Fritsch
26 Feb 2018
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They reached this conclusion with the thinking of structure = function". Hippocrates believed that the brain was not only involved in sensation but also where intelligence evolves. Aristotle believed the heart to be where the intellectual comes from and the brain was a. Galen embraced hippocrates" view of the brain and did inspections to sheep, he saw the two main structures of the brain: the cerebellum and the cerebrum. And draw conclusion as the greeks did, and deducted that the cerebellum is for muscle controls and the cerebrum for sensation and perception. Galen also found out that the brain is hollow (ventricles) and that fluid runs through the spaces: galen"s view prevailed for 1500 years, the 19th century: Andreas vesalius added more detail to the structure of the brain to galen"s principles. Descartes believed that the fluid-mechanical" theory did not explain human behavior to its entirety.
