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A SelectiveHistory of

PhysiologicalPsychology

You look at where you’re goingand where you areand it never makes sense, but then you look backat where you’ve beenand a pattern seems to emerge.

R.M. Pirsig (1974)Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

4000-year-old trephinated skull

trephines

AncientPhilosophers

Hippocratesca. 460 B.C.-ca 370 B.C.

Aristotle384 B.C. – 322 B.C.

Claude Galen120-ca.216 A.D.

TheRenaissance

Anatomyand

Physiology

Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519

1489 1489

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a. drawing of brain; line intersections are center of sensory perceptionb. drawing of skullc. drawing of brain in skull, showing ventriclesd. drawing of ventricles, based on wax mold made from ox brain

Andreas Vesalius1514-1564

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

William Harvey1578-1657

René Descartes1596-1650

Albrecht von Haller1708-1777

Localizationof

Function

Charles Bell1774-1842

FrançoisMagendie1783-1855

Johannes Peter Müller1801-1858

Franz Joseph Gall1758-1828

Paul Broca1824-1880

Jean Pierre Flourens1794-1867

Karl Lashley1890-1958

Electrical Bases of

Neural Activity

Luigi Galvani1737-1798

CriticalExperiment1791

Alessandro Volta1745-1827

Critical Experiment 1800

Emil du Bois-Reymond1818-1896

Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz1821-1894

Sir Charles Sherrington1857-1952

Histologyof the

Nervous System

Marie Bichat 1771-1802

Camillo Golgi1843-1926

Santiago Ramon y Cajal1852-1934

Chemical Basesof

Nervous Function

Claude Bernard 1813-1878

Sir Henry Dale1875-1968

vagusnerve

Ringer’s solution

frog’sheart

Dale’s Experiment

1. Stimulate the vagus nerve and the heart slows down

2. Add acetylcholine to the Ringer’s solution and the heart slows down

Otto Loewi1873-1961

vagusnerve

Ringer’s solution

frog’sheart

Loewe’s Experiment

1. Stimulate the vagus nerve and the heart in beaker A slows down THEN2. Transfer Ringer’s solution from A to B and heart in B slows down

A B

transferRinger’s

Synaptic Plasticity

Donald Hebb1904-1985

Hebb’s Postulate of Learning

D.O. Hebb (1949) Organization of Behavior . N.Y.: Wiley & Sons, p. 62.