Summary Table: Key Studies of the Brain & Behaviour (HL IB Psychology)

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Summary Table: Key Studies

Below is a table that summarises the key studies for 'The Brain & Behaviour' content in IB Psychology. Use this as a checklist when you are revising to make sure you have the necessary information for the exam

SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR

Topic

Key Studies

Techniques Used to Study the Brain – Post-Mortem Analysis

The case of HM (Milner 1958; Corkin 1997)

The case of ‘Tan’ (Broca 1861)

Techniques Used to Study the Brain – MRI

Maguire (2000)

Luby et al. (2013)

Techniques Used to Study the Brain – fMRI and PET Scans

Fisher et al. (2005) 

Raine et al. (1997)

Localisation of Function

Maguire (2000)

The case of HM (Milner 1958; Corkin 1997)

Neuroplasticity

Maguire (2000)

Luby et al. (2013)

Neural Networks & Neural Pruning

Maguire (2000)

Draganski et al. (2004)

Neurotransmitters & Their Effect on Behaviour

Fisher et al. (2005)

Brunner et al. (1993)

Neurotransmitters – Agonists & Antagonists

Crockett et al. (2010)

Romach et al. (1999)

Neurotransmitters – Excitatory & Inhibitory Synapses

Kraal et al. (2020)

Streeter et al. (2010)

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Claire Neeson

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Claire has been teaching for 34 years, in the UK and overseas. She has taught GCSE, A-level and IB Psychology which has been a lot of fun and extremely exhausting! Claire is now a freelance Psychology teacher and content creator, producing textbooks, revision notes and (hopefully) exciting and interactive teaching materials for use in the classroom and for exam prep. Her passion (apart from Psychology of course) is roller skating and when she is not working (or watching 'Coronation Street') she can be found busting some impressive moves on her local roller rink.