Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Cerebral Localization and Its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier

by Robert Maxwell Young

278 pages· 1970· ISBN 9780195063899
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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.

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