Here are some sample sites for information available on the internet:

• Recommended history web site for the Greeks (Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen) and Descartes
• Thomas Hobbes info and the Leviathan
• John Locke with link to Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Charles Darwin and Origin of the Species
• Romanes anecdote
• E. L. Thorndike and link to Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies
• Ivan Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex

Download PDF files

• Study Guide for Section 1
• Some History Quotes and Slides

Announcements:

• See syllabus for questions on exam format.
• Review session/extra office hours at 12:30 Thursday the 12th in KRB 112 (a couple doors down from the lab room).
• Question 9 on the Study Guide: Structure and common properties of neurons will be on the exam but chemical synaptic transmission will be postponed until next section.

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