-A super brief history of brain studies, from Phineas Gage's bizarre accident to the groundbreaking works of Golgi and Cajal.
- What IS consciousness, and why does it matter for psychology?
- Can the brain explain everything about the mind?
- What are the ethical dilemmas faced by psychologists today?
From my study notes :
Read William James (heavy) and Oliver Sacks (light) but also Noam Chomsky (very heavy)
Watch this debate :
holbergprize.org/en/2023-holb...
And pair it with iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-c...
Read about these controversies
-Doctors Trials : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors...
-Nazi Eugenics : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eu...
-Enhanced interrogation technique by the CIA www.justice.gov/sites/default...
www.apa.org/news/press/op-eds...
Watch this Movie
The Torture Report (2019) - About the APA psychologists who suggested torture techniques to the CIA
Watch these Videos:
Mind-body relationship
Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body?
• Are you a body with a ...
The Neuroscience of Free Will with Dr. Benjamin Libet -
• Neuroscience and Free ...
Interesting Automatons from my presentation
• Automaton friar in action
“Though its origins are shrouded in mystery, one legend proposes that this marvel was made after a relic of the Franciscan brother Diego de Alcalá miraculously cured the young Spanish prince Don Carlos. The prince's father, Philip II, vowed “a miracle for a miracle” and commissioned this automaton representing the monk, who was canonised as a saint (San Diego, namesake of the California city). The king's comparison of clockwork to a miracle references the contest between human clockmakers and the divine, a popular concept in the Renaissance.”
• Making Marvels-Reprodu...
“Wolfgang von Kempelen's famed illusion that sparked discussions of the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence, and it inspired the development of the power loom, the telephone, and the computer”
Classic Studies & Papers:
Sperry & Gazzaniga (Split-Brain):
-Gazzaniga, M. S., & Sperry, R. W. (1967). Language after section of the cerebral commissures. Brain, 90(1), 131-148.
-Sperry, R. W. (1968). Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness. American Psychologist, 23(10), 723-733.
Patient H.M. (Memory):
Scoville, W. B., & Milner, B. (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions.. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 20(1), 11-21.
Corkin, S. (2002). What's new with the amnesic patient H.M.? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(2), 153-160.
Benjamin Libet (Free Will):
Libet, B., Gleason, C. A., Wright, E. W., & Pearl, D. K. (1983). Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential). Brain, 106(3), 623-642.
Libet, B. (1985).Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(4), 529-539.
Phineas Gage (Personality & the Brain):
Damasio, H., Grabowski, T., Frank, R., Galaburda, A. M., & Damasio, A. R. (1994).The return of Phineas Gage: Clues about the brain from the skull of a famous patient. Science, 264(5162), 1102-1105.
Macmillan, M. (2000). An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage.. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Francis Crick & Christof Koch (Neural Correlates of Consciousness):
Crick, F., & Koch, C. (1990). Toward a neurobiological theory of consciousness. Seminars in the Neurosciences, 2, 263-275.
Broca & Wernicke (Language and the Brain):
Broca, P. (1861) Remarks on the seat of the faculty of articulated language, followed by an observation of aphemia (loss of speech). Bulletin de la Société Anatomique, 6, 330-357.
Wernicke, C. (1874). The symptom complex of aphasia: A psychological study on an anatomical basis. Cohn & Weigert.
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