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The Psychology Book
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The Psychology Book

by DK
February 2015
Beginner
352 pages
14h 15m
English
DK Publishing
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IN CONTEXT

APPROACH

Neuropsychology

BEFORE

1861 French anatomist Paul Broca locates the area of the brain responsible for speech.

1880s Spanish pathologist and neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal develops the theory that the body’s nervous system is made up of cells, which German anatomist Heinrich Waldeyer-Hartz later calls “neurons.”

AFTER

1949 Donald Hebb describes the formation of cell assemblies and phase sequences in the process of associative learning.

From 1980 Modern brain-imaging techniques such as CT, fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and PET (positron emission tomography) scanning allow neuroscientists to map specific brain functions. ...

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