PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Phineas Gage, Henry Molaison
3 Nov 2018
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Lecture #4 the biological basis of behaviour. The goal of neuropsychological research is to study the brain to better understand psychological processes. Behavioural and physiological measurement rely on two relatively independent methodological toolkits. Louis victor leborgne tan was born in 1809 in moret-sur-loing. At age 30, he experienced a debilitating loss of speech. Could no longer produce more than a single syllable. Always responded tan, tan combined with varied expressive gestures. Broca"s aphasia is the language production deficit caused by a legion to portions of the inferior frontal gyrus. Broca"s work was a catalyst for localization, which is the thesis that different parts of the brain are responsible for specific behaviours. The worst part of leborgne"s lesion wasn"t in broca"s area. The victim of an accident in 1848. Got distracted when using a tamping iron to prepare a controlled explosion for blasting away a rock.
