DP1: Different approaches over time in understanding the role of the brain in behaviour and mental processes.

Brain vs Heart debate: - a historical debate as to whether the heart or the brain is responsible for mental processes, such as thought, emotion and behaviour.

Mind-body problem (monism and dualism): The mind-body problem is the problem of understanding what the relation between the mind and body is, or more specifically, whether mental phenomena are a subset of physical phenomena or not.

• Dualism approach: the human mind and the human body are two entirely separate things.

• Monism approach: the mind and the brain are the same thing.

Phrenology: - Phrenology is a process that involves observing and/or feeling the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.

First brain experiences:

• Brain lesioning is the process of studying the effects of damage on regions of the brain

  • Brain Ablation - Brain ablation is when parts regions of the brain are the surgical removal, destruction and cutting of a region of brain tissue

  • Brain lesioning - Brain lesioning is the process of studying the effects of damage on regions of the brain.

  • Spit-brain experiments - When a patient has their left and right brain hemispheres separated by cutting the nervous tissue that connected them, known as the corpus callosum.

Neuroimaging techniques:

• X-rays and CT shows x-ray structure.

• MRI shows structural.

• Fmri and PET shows functional