Experiments that are not completely scientific but necessary to do in that way, usually because of ethical or practical reasons (e.g. a study showing the results of head injuries on peoples' lives can't randomly give experimental group brain damage)
Phineas Gage
One of the most famous neuroscience case studies of a rail worker who got a pole shoved through his head and had major personality changes
Contralateral organization
When your left hemisphere is in charge of the right side of your body, and vice versa. A distinguishing feature of the vertebrate brain
Localization theory
Idea proposed by Paul Broca that specific areas of the brain were in charge of specific functions
Distributive processing theory
Suggests that for more complex behaviors, multiple sections of the brain have to be activated
Cognition
The act of generating knowledge though thoughts, memories, and senses
Emergence
Idea that the whole of the brain is greater than the sum of its isolated parts
