History of Neuroscience

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Modern localizationalism

Circa 1688 – 2000

People who believed that (brain) functions were distinctly localized across the nervous system.

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Between 1688 and 1772
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Between 1736 and 1822
Domenico Cotugno
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Between 1758 and 1828
Franz Joseph Gall
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Between 1770 and 1840
Jean-Cesar Legallois
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Between 1774 and 1855
Bell-Magendie Law
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Between 1776 and 1832
Johann Spurzheim
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Between 1794 and 1867
Marie Jean Pierre Flourens
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Between 1796 and 1881
Jean-Baptiste Bouillard
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Between 1823 and 1860
Phineas Gage
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Between 1824 and 1880
Pierre Paul Broca
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Between 1824 and 1924
David Ferrier
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Between 1831 and 1904
Roberts Bartholow
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Between 1842 and 1926
Richard Caton
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Between 1848 and 1905
Carl Wernicke
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Between 1852 and 1934
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Between 1852 and 1952
Charles Sherrington
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Between 1859 and 1925
Jacques Loeb
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Between 1868 and 1918
Korbinian Brodmann
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Between 1891 and 1976
Wilder Penfield
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Circa 1912
Gestalt
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Between 1959 and 1968
Sperry and Gazzaniga
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