Introduction to Psychology Radhika Bapat Ep 1
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-A super brief history of brain studies, from Phineas Gage's bizarre accident to the groundbreaking works of Golgi and Cajal. • What IS consciousness, and why does it matter for psychology? • Can the brain explain everything about the mind? • What are the ethical dilemmas faced by psychologists today? • From my study notes : • Read William James (heavy) and Oliver Sacks (light) but also Noam Chomsky (very heavy) • Watch this debate : • https://holbergprize.org/en/2023-holb... • And pair it with https://iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-c... • Read about these controversies • -Doctors Trials : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors... • -Nazi Eugenics : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eu... • -Enhanced interrogation technique by the CIA https://www.justice.gov/sites/default... • https://www.apa.org/news/press/op-eds... • Watch this Movie • The Torture Report (2019) - About the APA psychologists who suggested torture techniques to the CIA • Watch these Videos: • Mind-body relationship • Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? • • Are you a body with a mind or a mind ... • The Neuroscience of Free Will with Dr. Benjamin Libet - • • Neuroscience and Free Will - Libet's ... • Interesting Automatons from my presentation • • Automaton friar in action • “Though its origins are shrouded in mystery, one legend proposes that this marvel was made after a relic of the Franciscan brother Diego de Alcalá miraculously cured the young Spanish prince Don Carlos. The prince's father, Philip II, vowed “a miracle for a miracle” and commissioned this automaton representing the monk, who was canonised as a saint (San Diego, namesake of the California city). The king's comparison of clockwork to a miracle references the contest between human clockmakers and the divine, a popular concept in the Renaissance.” • • Making Marvels—Reproduction of the Ch... • “Wolfgang von Kempelen's famed illusion that sparked discussions of the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence, and it inspired the development of the power loom, the telephone, and the computer” • • Classic Studies Papers: • Sperry Gazzaniga (Split-Brain): • -Gazzaniga, M. S., Sperry, R. W. (1967). Language after section of the cerebral commissures. Brain, 90(1), 131-148. • -Sperry, R. W. (1968). Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness. American Psychologist, 23(10), 723-733. • Patient H.M. (Memory): • Scoville, W. B., Milner, B. (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions.. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery Psychiatry, 20(1), 11-21. • Corkin, S. (2002). What's new with the amnesic patient H.M.? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(2), 153-160. • Benjamin Libet (Free Will): • Libet, B., Gleason, C. A., Wright, E. W., Pearl, D. K. (1983). Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential). Brain, 106(3), 623-642. • Libet, B. (1985).Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(4), 529-539. • Phineas Gage (Personality the Brain): • Damasio, H., Grabowski, T., Frank, R., Galaburda, A. M., Damasio, A. R. (1994).The return of Phineas Gage: Clues about the brain from the skull of a famous patient. Science, 264(5162), 1102-1105. • Macmillan, M. (2000). An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage.. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. • Francis Crick Christof Koch (Neural Correlates of Consciousness): • Crick, F., Koch, C. (1990). Toward a neurobiological theory of consciousness. Seminars in the Neurosciences, 2, 263-275. • Broca Wernicke (Language and the Brain): • Broca, P. (1861) Remarks on the seat of the faculty of articulated language, followed by an observation of aphemia (loss of speech). Bulletin de la Société Anatomique, 6, 330-357. • Wernicke, C. (1874). The symptom complex of aphasia: A psychological study on an anatomical basis. Cohn Weigert.
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