Behavioral Neuroscience Flashcards

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The neural and biological bases of behavior

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Behavioral neuroscience

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Earliest written record that mentions the brain

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Edwin Smith Paprus

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The birthplace of neuroscience

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Ancient Greece

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Theory that the brain is located in the heart

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Cardiocentrism

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Believed the brain is the cooling mechanism of the heart

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Aristotle

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Conducted the first neuroscience experiment

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Da Vinci

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Theory that mind and body are separate entities

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Dualism

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Biology gives rise to the mind

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Reductionism

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Mind emerges as high order entity (ocean)

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Emergentism

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Theorized that the mind is a blank slate at birth (Tabula Rosa)

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John Locke

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First modern neuroscientist

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Ramon Y Cajal

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