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Charles Bell
(1774–1842)Charles Bell was born in Edinburgh in November 1774 and died at Hallow Park, near Worcester on 28 April 1842. He received his early training in the ‘Arts of ...
Charles Kay Ogden
(1889–1957) English book collector of wide-ranging interests.In 1953, he sold his MSS and early printed books, as well as materials on Jeremy Bentham and Lord Brougham, to University College ...
Edgar Douglas Adrian
1st Baron Adrian (1889–1977). Adrian was born in London and educated at Westminster School, where he became a King's Scholar at the end of his first term. Like his mentor ...
‘emergence’ and ‘reduction’ in explanations
A classical question of philosophy is the one/many problem: is everything in the universe ultimately one thing—or are there, as it certainly appears, many things? In another and more interesting ...
Jerzy Konorski
(1903–73).Polish neurophysiologist and behavioural scientist, born in Lođz. After studying medicine at the University of Warsaw, he visited Ivan Pavlov's laboratory before returning to Poland to work ...
Luria on mind and brain
The relation between brain and mind has been for many centuries one of the most difficult problems, both of philosophy and of science. Two approaches to the problem have been ...
McCulloch's contributions to brain theory
Warren McCulloch was a central pioneer figure of cybernetic and computational models of brain function. The year 1943 saw the publication of ‘A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in ...
Robert Sessions Woodworth
(1869–1962).American psychologist, born in Belcher Town, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College, where he graduated in philosophy. He proceeded to Harvard for his graduate studies, where he ...
Sherrington, Charles Scott (1857–1952) Reference library
The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy
Charles Scott Sherrington was born in Islington on 27 November 1857 and died in Eastbourne on 4 March 1952.
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Reference library
Georges Thinès
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
(1857–1952).
British physiologist, born in London and educated at Ipswich grammar school and at Cambridge; he qualified at St Thomas' Hospital in London in ...
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Quick reference
A Dictionary of Scientists
(1857–1952) British physiologist
Sherrington, a Londoner by birth, was educated at Cambridge University and St. Thomas's Hospital, London, gaining his BA in natural science in ...
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
British neurophysiologist, whose work on the mechanisms of integration in the nervous system earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was knighted in ...
split brain
A surgical operation in which the two cerebral hemispheres of a person's brain are separated by cutting the corpus callosum, usually to relieve the symptoms of epilepsy, or in which an animal is ...
stimulus
Any change in the external or internal environment of an organism that provokes a physiological or behavioural response in the organism. In an animal specific receptors are sensitive to stimuli.
synergy
Coordinated activity of opposing muscle groups (antagonistic pairs, such as the biceps and triceps in the upper arm) that results in smooth, well-controlled movements. See also synergist.
Wilder Penfield
(1891–1976), neurosurgeon, scientist, writer.Born in Spokane, Washington, Penfield pursued athletics at Princeton and medicine at Oxford. Influenced by William Osler and Charles Sherrington, he chose ...
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