20: 20th Century Neuroscience Flashcards
What is the influence of behaviourism?
Lashley and Watson put leisons on rats brains and made them run mazes of varying difficulty
What is equipotentiality?
The capacity of any part of the brain to carry out memory function which are lost in other parts
What is the law of mass action?
The performance of an entire complex function may be reduced in proportion to the brain injury
Who came up with the idea of lobotomy to treat mental illness?
Moniz
Who described the synaptic cleft?
Cajal
What contribution did Leowi make in neuroscience?
Neurons communicate chemically across the cleft
Iscolated the first neurotransmitter
What contribution did Hebb make to neuroscience?
Argued the importance of the frontal lobes in early learning and development
Neurons that fire together wire together
What contribution did Milner make to neuroscience?
Understanding of the hippocampus and it’s role in memory
