should you buy an e-textbook?. a selective history of physiological psychology
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Should you buy ane-textbook?
A SelectiveHistory of
PhysiologicalPsychology
You look at where you’re goingand where you areand it never makes sense, but then you look backat where you’ve beenand a pattern seems to emerge.
R.M. Pirsig (1974)Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
4000-year-old trephinated skull
trephines
AncientPhilosophers
Hippocratesca. 460 B.C.-ca 370 B.C.
Aristotle384 B.C. – 322 B.C.
Claude Galen120-ca.216 A.D.
TheRenaissance
Anatomyand
Physiology
Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519
1489 1489
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a. drawing of brain; line intersections are center of sensory perceptionb. drawing of skullc. drawing of brain in skull, showing ventriclesd. drawing of ventricles, based on wax mold made from ox brain
Andreas Vesalius1514-1564
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
William Harvey1578-1657
René Descartes1596-1650
Albrecht von Haller1708-1777
Localizationof
Function
Charles Bell1774-1842
FrançoisMagendie1783-1855
Johannes Peter Müller1801-1858
Franz Joseph Gall1758-1828
Paul Broca1824-1880
Jean Pierre Flourens1794-1867
Karl Lashley1890-1958
Electrical Bases of
Neural Activity
Luigi Galvani1737-1798
CriticalExperiment1791
Alessandro Volta1745-1827
Critical Experiment 1800
Emil du Bois-Reymond1818-1896
Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz1821-1894
Sir Charles Sherrington1857-1952
Histologyof the
Nervous System
Marie Bichat 1771-1802
Camillo Golgi1843-1926
Santiago Ramon y Cajal1852-1934
Chemical Basesof
Nervous Function
Claude Bernard 1813-1878
Sir Henry Dale1875-1968
vagusnerve
Ringer’s solution
frog’sheart
Dale’s Experiment
1. Stimulate the vagus nerve and the heart slows down
2. Add acetylcholine to the Ringer’s solution and the heart slows down
Otto Loewi1873-1961
vagusnerve
Ringer’s solution
frog’sheart
Loewe’s Experiment
1. Stimulate the vagus nerve and the heart in beaker A slows down THEN2. Transfer Ringer’s solution from A to B and heart in B slows down
A B
transferRinger’s
Synaptic Plasticity
Donald Hebb1904-1985
Hebb’s Postulate of Learning
D.O. Hebb (1949) Organization of Behavior . N.Y.: Wiley & Sons, p. 62.