Physiological Psychology Flashcards
Frank Gall
Phrenology
Pierre Flourens
Expiration
John Dewey
Functionalism
Against the study of reflex arc
Paul Broca
The first person to demonstrate that specific functional impairments could be linked to specific brain lesions
Phineas Gage
Famous case link if brain lesions and functional behaviors
Johannes Muller
Law of specific never energies
Hermann Von Helmholtz
The first to measure the speed of a nerve impulse
Transition of psychology into the field of natural science
Sir Charles Sherrington
Inferred the existence of synapses
One false prediction: synaptic transmission was electrical
Walter Cannon
Pioneering work on automatic nervous systems
Developed the concept of homeostasis
James olds and peter Milner
Experiment activating septal nuclei in rats
Kluver-Bucy
Bilateral removal of amygdala
Compulsive eating, hyperorality, hypersexuality, visual agnostic, docility
Brenda Milner
Described H.M. case in detail
Hippocampus, anterograde amnesia
Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga
Corpus callosum
Eric Kandel
Studying aplysia
Demonstrate learning and behavior can be explained by changes in neurons
Wilder Penfield
Using electrodes to stimulate brain regions
