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Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Brain and Behaviour: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 17 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Gage, Luria, Sperry, and Tulving to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired. Suitable for students on neuropsychology courses at all levels, as well as anyone with an enquiring mind.
An introduction to classic studies in behavioral neuroscience
An introduction to classic studies in behavioral neuroscience
There have been literally tens of thousands of papers on brain organization and function published over the past 100 years, but the majority have focused on reducing complex phenomena of brain function to simpler (and often molecular) terms yet do not help our understanding of brain organization and function, and few stand out as “classics.” The classics are distinguished by introducing new ideas that shape the direction of subsequent research.
Such was the book The Treatise of Mind, written by the French philosopher René Descartes in the 1600s, that proposed that the brain makes an important contribution to behavior. ...
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