Humbled History Response In the article, we learn about the people who first started studying the brain and the thoughts they constructed through their experiments. Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, and Hippocrates where some of the first men to look at the brain. They formed different theories of the brain which led others to create their own theories and experiments. People used to think that some of the things, we now know are controlled by our brains, were controlled by other parts of our bodies. Aristotle believed that the heart was the most important organ. He thought the soul, which was the independent force driving that life, resided in the liver. Pythagoras and Hippocrates thought of the brain to be the “noblest” part of the body. Plato agreed with the two men. He thought the lower passions such as lust and greed were from …show more content…
He compared the brain to a telegraph station that sent pulsed messages from point to point. Eduard Hitzig and Gustav Theodor Fritsch took this and stimulated the cerebral cortex of cats. Wilder Penfield went beyond that and electrically stimulated parts of the cortex, not on cats but on conscious people. He reported that some people would see or hear different things. If he stimulated the temple, people would remember very specific things. They could explain to him vivid memories that came to them. I personally liked how they compared the brain to a machine. Because of that they were able to discover more about it. In the late 19th century, Wilhem Wundt started developing psychology by using natural science. “Understanding computers would be important to comprehending the brain. Also, perhaps thinking, feeling and consciousness were not tied to the brain’s substance but were brought up through the logical connections of its elements and could thus be emulated in a computer. These two ideas became the cornerstones of