Brain and personality, or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind / by William Hanna Thomson.

  • William Hanna Thomson
Date:
1906
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Credit: Brain and personality, or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind / by William Hanna Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    termed the effects of experiments with the human brain which disease makes for them. While it has been a distinct gain for psy- chologists to leave metaphysics and turn their attention to the general physiology of the nervous system, the criticism may be made that apart from the human brain the field of psychology is very limited as far as the rela- tion of mind to matter is concerned. A single very circumscribed injury to a place in the human brain may teach more on this subject than a survey of the whole domain of nervous physiology in animals. This is well illus- trated by the fact that the identification of speech centers in the brain ere long led to the discovery, again by medical men, of the material seats of a whole series of other fac- ulties both sensory and intellectual; so that taken together these findings give to the subject of the physical relations of the brain to the mind an entirely new aspect. These discoveries, however, have all been made within the lifetime of our own genera-
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