PSYC340 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lateral Sulcus, Central Sulcus, Lexical Decision Task

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC340
• Professor: M E D I N A

Document Summary

Temporal: identify, logic in lashley"s research and testing. Neuroanatomy, theory & methods (9/5 & 9/7) . Engram - believed memories = stored in one place. Remove parts of brain (rat) to see how performance is affected. Believed memories are stores as changes in brain. Teach rats to learn a task, use lesion method to find functional localization. Lashley first thought that memory is localized then realized he was wrong. Evidence showed that damage to different parts of brain didn"t effect their memory then it was concluded. Given that damage to different parts of brain there was no affect to memory. Step by step to go through brain and see if function is associated with memory. Concluded that because he didn"t find a specific spot that means memory is everywhere. Same relationship between amount of lesion and deficit. Theory of mass action - where the lesion is didn"t matter, how much taken out was important.