History of Neuroscience

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Between 1890 and 1958
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Carl Lashley

  • studied effects of brain lesions in animals
  • law of equipotentiality:
    • ability for brain areas to compensate the loss of function after an injury to a particular area
    • helped explain how animals could relearn previously impaired functions
    • probably only pertaining to "higher order" functions, not sensory or motor functions
  • law of mass action:
    • size/ magnitude of lesion is proportional to the degree of loss in function
    • memory loss is thus a function of lesion size, not location