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Biological approach SAQ's with corresponding studies and aims.
Techniques used to study the brain in relation to behaviour. For example: fMRI, MRI, EEG, CAT, PET
Maguire et al (2000)
Aim: to see whether the brains of London taxi drivers would be somehow different as a result of their exceptional knowledge of the city and the many hours that they spend behind the wheel navigating the streets of London
Localisation of function, with examples of localised functions
Eugene Pauly
Aim: further understand how memory works and gain further understanding about how memory is gained, developed and changed
Neuroplasticity, including: neural network, neural pruning, neurones
Maguire et al (2000)
Aim: to see whether the brains of London taxi drivers would be somehow different as a result of their exceptional knowledge of the city and the many hours that they spend behind the wheel navigating the streets of London
Neurotransmitters and their effects on behaviour, including: excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters, synapses, agonists, antagonists
Antonov et al (2011)
Aim: to see if scopolamine affected hippocampal activity in the creation of spatial memory
Ethical considerations in the study of brain and behaviour
Milner et al 1968
Aim: to better understand the effects that the surgery had had on the patient HM
