Nemesius of Emesa and early brain mapping

Eijk, Philip van der

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61183-6

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“…The ventricular paradigm persisted for almost 1500 years. It was advanced by Posidonious and Nemesius in the fourth and fifth centuries who placed sensation and imagination in the anterior, reason in the middle, and memory in the posterior ventricles (van der Eijk 2008 ), a view advanced by medieval scholars (Gross 1987 ). Human dissections in the fourteenth century initially repeated Galenic dogma, but in the sixteenth century Vesalius revealed over 200 anomalies in Galen’s anatomy, beginning with his “Six Anatomical Tables” in 1538.…”

Section: Cortical Localisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kuhnian revolutions in neuroscience: the role of tool development

Parker

2018

Biol Philos

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The terms “paradigm” and “paradigm shift” originated in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn. A paradigm can be defined as the generally accepted concepts and practices of a field, and a paradigm shift its replacement in a scientific revolution. A paradigm shift results from a crisis caused by anomalies in a paradigm that reduce its usefulness to a field. Claims of paradigm shifts and revolutions are made frequently in the neurosciences. In this article I will consider neuroscience paradigms, and the claim that new tools and techniques rather than crises have driven paradigm shifts. I will argue that tool development has played a minor role in neuroscience revolutions.

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Section: Cortical Localisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kuhnian revolutions in neuroscience: the role of tool development

Parker

2018

Biol Philos

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“…In his view, the senses and imagination had a rostral ventricular location, memory a posterior one, and intellectual thought seated in between the two others. Nemesius grounded his anatomo-functional proposal on clinical support (van der Eijk, 2008). Indeed, he had observed that frontal injuries impaired senses, not the other functions, middle injuries affected thought but preserved sensation and memory, and posterior injuries altered only memory.…”

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confidence: 99%