Lecture 1: Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience Flashcards
Physiological psychology
Behavioral neuroscience & mind-brain relations
Comparative psychology
evolution of behavior
psychology of animals vs. humans
Mind-body causation
question of how mind interacts with body dates to antiquity
Phineas Gage’s brain
1840’s railway accident,
tamping rod exploded upward into frontal lobe,
altered personality
Seminal
gelatinour & whitish fluid in the brain
What did Aristotle thought was our quick, moving, and alive organ?
human heart; brain only served as a cooling unit
Where did Hippocrates believe our emotions rose from?
brain
Who was Galen and what did he think about the brain?
he was a physician to the gladiators and he believed a rational soul is lodged in the brain, because he saw a lot of head injuries and their effect
Where is the cerebrospinal fluid found in the brain?
ventricles
How did Leonardo da Vinci see the real shape of the brain?
he bought an ox head and poured molten wax into the brain and it solidified
What did Rene Descartes believe about mind and matter? (the brain)
mind is not matter, they are two separate domains; mind and matter must interact
What did Descartes believe to be the bridge between mind and brain?
the pineal
What is the difference between an asleep brain and an awake brain?
Awake brain has more “striations” and expands while the asleep brain is lumpy etc.
Dualism (Mentalism)
Mind and brain separate but interacting, parallel causation
Reductionism (materialist identity theory)
Mind is really brain event, one-way causation (brain and mind are the same)
