NBB 302- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)

• School: Emory University
• Department: Neuroscience & Behavioral Sci
• Course: NBB 302
• Professor: Gillian Hue

Document Summary

Neuron doctrine: nervous system made up of individual cells. The psychological story: donders -- method of using differences in reaction times to infer diff in cognitive processing. Empiricism: enlightenment period, all knowledge could be gained through use of reason alone, replaced religion, descartes, spinoza, leibniz, not the same as logical thinking. Ebbinghaus: knowledge comes from sensory experience, hobbes, locke, hume, mill. Associationism: complex processes like memory could be measured and analyzed. Thorndike: law of effect response followed by a reward would be stamped into organism as habitual response. Montreal procedure (jasper, sherrington) : treating epilepsy; destroy neurons in brain that produced seizures. ** maps of the sensory and motor cortices in the brain were created. Chomsky : 3 models for description of language. Milner: first description of circuitry in prefrontal cortex and how it relates to working memory. First studies on influence of da on prefrontal cortex.