Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century PDF Author: Robert Maxwell Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195063899
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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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.