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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.
Beyond Pons et al.: Massive cortical reorganization after sensory deafferentation in adult macaques
Beyond Pons et al.: Massive cortical reorganization after sensory deafferentation in adult macaques
Introduction
The somatosensory cortex contains maps of skin surfaces, muscles and joints that can be detected by measuring the response of cortical neurons to sensory stimulation. For example, the region of cortex in which neurons are most responsive to touch of a particular skin surface is considered to be the somatosensory representation for that skin surface. The entire collection of representations makes a human resembling map, the homunculus (little person) in the somatosensory cortex.
In the late 1970s through to the 1980s there was major excitement surrounding findings that cortical maps of body surfaces changed ...
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