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Franz Gall (Mid-1700s-early 1800s)

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phrenology

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Pierre Flourens(early 1800s)

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first to study functions of sections of the brain; used extirpation (mostly in pigeons) to study behavioral effects of removing parts of the brain (also called “ablation”); discovered that while parts had specific functions, removal of one part weakens whole brain

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William James (1842-1910)

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Believed it important to study how mind functions in adapting to the environment (early functionalism)

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John Dewey (1859-1952)

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his article in 1896 directly led to inception of functionalism (breaks process of reacting to stimulus into discrete parts); Dewey believed that psych should study organism as a whole

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Paul Broca (1860)

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Examined behavioral deficits of people with brain damage, demonstrated that specific functional impairments could be linked with specific brain lesions –> Broca’s area

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Phineas Gage (injured in 1848)

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Became unpredictable, profane, intolerant; prefrontal cortex functioning

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Johannes Müller

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identified law of specific nerve energies; each sensory nerve is excited by only one kind of energy (ex. vibration of air, light)

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Hermann von Helmholtz

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first to measure speed of a nerve impulse; often credited with transition of psychology into a natural science

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Sir Charles Sherrington

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first inferred existence of synapses; thought, however, that synaptic transmission was electrical (but it’s primarily chemical)