PSYB55H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Willis the first to link specific brain damage to specific behavioral deficits, and to theorize how the brain transfers information in what would later be called neuronal conduction. Created drawings of the human brain that remained the most accurate representations for 200 years. Set in motion the ideas and knowledge base that took hundreds of years to develop into what we know today as the field of cognitive neuroscience . Named in 1970s in the back seat of a ny taxi. Cognition the process of knowing (i. e. , what arises from awareness, perception, and reasoning), Neuroscience (the study of how the nervous system is organized and functions). How the functions of the physical brain can yield the thoughts and ideas of an intangible mind. The primate brain appeared between 34 million and 23 million years ago, during the oligocene epoch. It evolved into the progressively larger brains of the great apes in the.
