Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Revisiting Phineas Gage: Lessons we learned from damaged brains
Revisiting Phineas Gage: Lessons we learned from damaged brains
A great deal of contemporary decision research in economics, business, psychology, and neuroscience now accepts the idea that emotions play a significant role in influencing decision making. The case of Phineas Gage in 1848 paved the way for the notion that the frontal lobes were linked to judgment, decision making, social conduct, and personality. A number of cases of frontal lobe damage with defects similar to those of Phineas Gage appeared in the literature but received little attention. A revival of interest in the decision-making and social aspects of “frontal lobe syndrome” was triggered in part by the description of a modern ...
- Loading...