PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frontal Lobe, Electrophysiology, Phineas Gage
5 Mar 2016
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Understand sci advances of 17th + 18th century allowing philosophical questions concerning. Physiology + psychophysics humans to be examined in new more precise ways. Be familiar w early research on brain functioning. Address the question, by what mechanisms do empirical events come to be represented in consciousness. Everything from sense perception - motor rxn studied, gave birth to experimental psychology. Astronogers notice diff btwn individual time observations of when a star would travel across a telescope. Period of time between presentation and response of stimulus. Done by calculating personal equations, math formulas for diff reaction times o o o among observers. Importance of discrepancy btwn objective and subjective reality. Researchers became interested in organism/study of bio process by which we interact w physical world. Charles bell - discovered in modern time distinction between sensory + motor nerves. Reported: sensory nerves enter posterior (dorsal) roots of spinal cord, motor nerves emerge from anterior (ventral) roots o.
