Author: Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195063899
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The author examines ideas of the nature and localization of the functions of the brain in the light of the philosophical constraints at work in the sciences of mind and brain in the 19th century. Particular attention is paid to phrenology, sensory-motor physiology and associationist psychology.
Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century: Central Localisationand Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier
Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the 19th Century
Mind, brain and adaption in the nineteenth century
Author: Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Ninetenth Century
Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain
Author: Anne Harrington
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691024227
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691024227
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.
Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement
Author: Paul Eling
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000388387
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807. Gall's ideas had many supporters but were controversial and unsettling to others. In particular, the opposition ridiculed his belief that skull features reflect the growth of specific, underlying cortical organs, and hence correlate with personality traits (i.e., his ‘bumpology’). Gall’s fundamental ideas about the mind and organization of the brain were debated across the globe, and they also began to be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen, ‘professors’ who ‘read skulls’ for a living. But, as some historians have shown, his ideas about mind, brain and behavior led to the modern neurosciences. The chapters collected in this volume provide new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’, which originated as a science of humankind but became a popular source of entertainment. All chapters were originally published in various issues of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000388387
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807. Gall's ideas had many supporters but were controversial and unsettling to others. In particular, the opposition ridiculed his belief that skull features reflect the growth of specific, underlying cortical organs, and hence correlate with personality traits (i.e., his ‘bumpology’). Gall’s fundamental ideas about the mind and organization of the brain were debated across the globe, and they also began to be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen, ‘professors’ who ‘read skulls’ for a living. But, as some historians have shown, his ideas about mind, brain and behavior led to the modern neurosciences. The chapters collected in this volume provide new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’, which originated as a science of humankind but became a popular source of entertainment. All chapters were originally published in various issues of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
The Emergence of Neuroscience in the Nineteenth Century
The Emergence of Neuroscience in the Nineteenth Century
Hemisphere Differences and Duality of Mind in Nineteenth-century Medical Science, C. 1860-1900
Author: Anne Harrington
Publisher:
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Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description