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Rolls, Rolls & Rowe (1982)

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Support for Positive Incentive Theory of eating. More sandwiches were consumed when offered with 3 different fillings, and more pasta with a variety of shapes.

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Garfinkel & Gardner (1982)

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Hypothalamus dysfunction theory explanation for anorexia nervosa. Disturbed hypothalamus function leads to a lack of ‘weight thermostat’. Grey matter atrophy in AN, and BMI is associated with hypothalamus grey matter.

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Hypothalamus dysfunction theory explanation for anorexia nervosa.

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Garfinkel & Gardner (1982)

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Support for Positive Incentive Theory of eating. More sandwiches were consumed when offered with 3 different fillings, and more pasta with a variety of shapes.

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Rolls, Rolls & Rowe (1982)

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Schacter & Singer (1962)

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Condition-plus feedback theory

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Condition-plus feedback theory

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Schacter & Singer (1962)

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Maclean (1952)

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Revised Papez circuit to include amygdala

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Revised Papez circuit to include amygdala

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Maclean (1952)

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Pollatos (2007)

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Evidence for insula activity correlating with perception of bodily states. Used heartbeat detection task to categorise high/low awareness of body state. More aware = higher insula activity and experienced intensity of emotions.

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Evidence for insula activity correlating with perception of bodily states. Used heartbeat detection task to categorise high/low awareness of body state.

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Pollatos (2007)

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Bard (1928)

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Showed hypothalamus was critical for aggression expression, and cortex for inhibition and direction of these expressions.

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Showed hypothalamus was critical for aggression expression, and cortex for inhibition and direction of these expressions.

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Bard (1928)

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Hess

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Stimulation of hypothalamus could provoke a rage response. Medial vs Lateral.

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Ohman & Dolan (1998)

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Unconscious emotions - angry faces conditioned with unpleasant stimulus, response produced without participants knowing.

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Unconscious emotions - angry faces conditioned with unpleasant stimulus, response produced without participants knowing.

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Ohman & Dolan (1998)

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Claparede

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Unconscious emotions - hid pin in hand for patient hand shake, next day patient didn’t want to shake hands and didn’t know why.

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Unconscious emotions - hid pin in hand for patient hand shake, next day patient didn’t want to shake hands and didn’t know why.

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Claparede

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Lashley

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Claimed there was no specific declarative memory area in brain - whole brain involved. DISPROVED.

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Claimed there was no specific declarative memory area in brain - whole brain involved. DISPROVED.

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Lashley

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E. T. Rolls

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Neurons in inferotemporal cortex can become tuned to a certain face and fire when face is shown.

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Neurons in inferotemporal cortex can become tuned to a certain face and fire when face is shown.

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E. T. Rolls

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Fioriti (2015)

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Evidence for protein synthesis inhibitors leading to LTP and LTM deficits.Mice lacking protein for gene translation couldn’t discriminate anywhere near as well on object placement recognition 24 hours after. Short-term effects were the same but long-term majorly affected.

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Mice lacking protein for gene translation couldn’t discriminate anywhere near as well on object placement recognition 24 hours after.

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Fioriti (2015)

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O’Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971)

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Discovered place cells in hippocampus.

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Discovered place cells in hippocampus.

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O’Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971)

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Maguire (2000)

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Larger hippocampal volume in London taxi drivers vs controls - evidence for place cells in humans.

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Larger hippocampal volume in London taxi drivers vs controls.

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Maguire (2000)

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Coltheart (2001)

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Dual-route theory of reading - dorsal route (phonetic decoding) and ventral route (semantic mapping onto words).

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Dual-route theory of reading.

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Coltheart (2001)

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Xie (2013)

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Clearance of toxic waste products is twice as fast during sleep - evidence for restoration theory of sleep.

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Clearance of toxic waste products is twice as fast during sleep.

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Xie (2003)

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Randy Gardner

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Stayed awake for 11 days straight.

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Stayed awake for 11 days straight.

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Randy Gardner

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Hobson & McCarley (1977)

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Activation-synthesis model of dreaming.

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Activation-synthesis model of dreaming.

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Hobson & McCarley (1977)

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Plihal (1999)

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Partial sleep deprivation effect on memory. Early retention interval sleep benefits declarative, late retention interval sleep benefits procedural.

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Partial sleep deprivation effect on memory.

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Plihal (1999)

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Turner’s syndrome

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2nd X-chromosome in women missing/altered.

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2nd X-chromosome in women missing/altered.

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Turner’s syndrome

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Klinefelter’s syndrome

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Male additional X-chromosome.

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Male additional X-chromosome.

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Klinefelter’s syndrome

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LeVay (1991)

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Gay men have a sexually dimorphic nucleus half the size of straight men.

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Gay men have a sexually dimorphic nucleus half the size of straight men.

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LeVay (1991)

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Heim & Hursch (1979)

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50% of sex criminals stopped sexual behaviour after castration, 25% gradual decline, 10% no change.

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50% of sex criminals stopped sexual behaviour after castration.

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Heim & Hursch (1979)

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Roeder (1999)

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Blind participants were better at locating a peripheral speaker than sighted - due to compensatory reorganisation of brain areas. Both were the same at locating a central speaker.

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Blind participants were better at locating a peripheral speaker than sighted.

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Roeder (1999)

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Classen (1998)

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Less than 30 mins of thumb twitching altered motor cortex thumb representation. Evidence for motor plasticity.

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Less than 30 mins of thumb twitching altered motor cortex thumb representation.

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Classen (1998)

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Butefisch (2000)

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Administering drugs that block NMDA activation prevented motor cortex reorganisation.

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Administering drugs that block NMDA activation prevented motor cortex reorganisation.

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Butefisch (2000)

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Draganski (2004)

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Juggling training in adults for just 3 months increased hippocampal brain volume. Evidence for neurogenesis in adult hippocampus.

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Juggling training in adults for just 3 months increased hippocampal brain volume.

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Draganski (2004)

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Erickson (2011)

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Aerobic training led to a 2% increase in hippocampal volume VS a 1.4% decrease from stretching. Evidence for exercise promoting neurogenesis.

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Aerobic training led to a 2% increase in hippocampal volume VS a 1.4% decrease from stretching.

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Erickson (2011)

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James-Lange theory

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Experience of emotion is the awareness of physiological response to an emotion-arousing stimulus.

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Experience of emotion is the awareness of physiological response to an emotion-arousing stimulus.

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James-Lange theory

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Cannon-Bard

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Perception of a stimulus elicits both a physiological reaction and emotional response simultaneously.

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Perception of a stimulus elicits both a physiological reaction and emotional response simultaneously.

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Cannon-Bard

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Darwin’s theory of emotion

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Outward expression of emotions is: a product of evolution, innate & adaptive, serviceable, a communication function.

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Outward expression of emotions is: a product of evolution, innate & adaptive, serviceable, a communication function.

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Darwin’s theory

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