Researcher Deck Flashcards
(27 cards)
Who came up with ** and ** aphasia?
- Broca and Wernicke
What was the name of Broca’s patient who he did a postmortem exam on?
- Tan
Who researched neurosurgery having to do with OCD?
- Dougherty, 44 individuals underwent a cingulotomy which isolates the cingulate gyrus
- after 32 weeks 30% found it was successful
Who did a test on Broca vs Wernicke’s area that supported them existing?
- Peterson
- Found Broca’s area active during a reading task and Wernicke’s active during a listening task
What was the study about free running biological clock (isolation study)?
- Siffre
- 6 month Texan cave, found free running biological clock was 25 hours
Who did the study in the WW2 bunker?
- Aschoff and Weber, in for a month, one persons went to 29 and the others went from 24-25
What was the study with multiple pps in the cave where time was manipulated?
- Folkard
- 3 weeks dark cave, 12 pps, clock was 11:45 and 7:45
- was reduced to a 22 hour day only 1 person adjusted well
What was said about biology and morning/night people?
- Duffy (2001)
- larks vs owls
What was a weakness of Siffre’s study?
- Lamp
Who did split brain research?
- Sperry
- 11 pps with split brain
Who supported the idea of LH as analyser and RH as synthesiser?
- Fink pet scans whole forest vs single tree (LH)
Who suggested there was no dominant side of the brain?
- Nielsen 100 brain scans age 7-29
Who said-split brain research candidates perform better on certain tasks than neurotypical individuals?
- Gazzaniga
- Identifying the odd on out in a group of objects
Who suggested LH waters down RH?
- Kingstone
Who did about synaptic transmission in children?
- Gopnik
- 2-3 years old have 15,000 synaptic connections compared to adults who have less than half of that
Who researched taxi drivers?
- Maguire
- Grey matter in the posterior hippocampus
Who researched plasticity in students?
- Draganski
- 3 months before and after exams
- grey matter in posterior hippocampus and change in parietal cortex
Who did about phantom limb syndrome?
- Ramachandran and Hirstein
- 60-80% amputees
Who showed that plasticity in old people is possible?
- Bezzola
- 40-60 people after 40 hours of golf
- increased activity in the motor cortex
Who suggested functional recovery is education dependant?
- Schneider
- after 16 years education 40% likelihood of DFR for 12 years 10%
Who researched the menstrual cycle as an infradian rhythm?
- Stern and McClintock
- 29 women, 9 armpit samples, 20 women tested on, 68% were affected
Who researched reduction in SWS in old people?
- Cauter
- SWS lack of alertness
Who said deep sleep is biologically determined?
- Tucker
- variation in stages 3/4 are biological and genetic
Who researched chipmunks for endogenous pacemakers?
- Decoursey
- 30 chipmunks 80 days
