PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Paul Broca, Functional Neuroimaging, Psy
29 Jul 2020
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Our brain is an organ with incredible physiological complexity in which there are about 1010 neurons and about 1014 connections, each of which can receive thousands of connections and send. This complex network ofexions is not limited to a purely local aspect in which there is intense interconnection between neighboring cells, but intense long- distance cortical and subcortic-cortical interconnections develop. This physiological framework makes us reflect on the difficulty of understanding the brain as a set of areas with specific functionality and some independence. This last proposal would show, from our point of view, greater biological plausibility. Sometimes it happens that the tools and methods available for research determine the type of conclusions that can be reached. The at dawnof the injury method described unique cases in which the injury of a specific region of the brain caused an alteration in a particular module of a cognitive process.
