Neuropsychology

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fMRI scan of the brain taken during working memory tasks, one type of neuropsychological testing.

Neuropsychology is the scientific study that studies the function and structure of the brain related to more common psychological processes and overt behaviors. The term has been applied to lesion studies in humans and animals. It has also been applied to efforts to record electrical activity from individual cells (or groups of cells) in higher primates (including some studies of human patients) you can apply to physical exercise.

Neuropsychology Media

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  Senses, perception, memory, dreams, action in Aristotle's biology. Impressions are stored in the seat of perception, linked by his Laws of Association (similarity, contrast, and contiguity).

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  Thomas Willis, British Anatomist (1621-1675)

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  French physician Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796-1881)