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Imaging genomics reveals genetic architecture of the globular human braincase
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Scientific American, 2008
The article discusses different metaphors which have been used to describe the operation of the human brain, focusing on the 21st century description of the brain as a multipurpose pocketknife, known as the modularity model. The study of brain region activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is described.
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The article discusses different metaphors which have been used to describe the operation of the human brain, focusing on the 21st century description of the brain as a multipurpose pocketknife, known as the modularity model. The study of brain region activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is described.
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2002
Abstract Phrenology (phren, Greek for ‘mind’, -logos, ‘reasoning’) was born toward the end of the eighteenth century. It is considered pseudoscience because of postulate e above. This postulate is ‘craniometry’—the belief that one can determine a mental profile from the shape of the skull.
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Abstract Phrenology (phren, Greek for ‘mind’, -logos, ‘reasoning’) was born toward the end of the eighteenth century. It is considered pseudoscience because of postulate e above. This postulate is ‘craniometry’—the belief that one can determine a mental profile from the shape of the skull.
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Was Phrenology a Reform Science? Towards a New Generalization for Phrenology
History of Science, 2004In this essay I argue that the general characterization of phrenology should not be that phrenology was a reform science, as is a common view today, but that phrenology was a science of personal authority. I will show that the reform science characterization, while perfectly appropriate during some periods of phrenology’s history and for some of its ...
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Phrenology and the average person, 1840–1940
History of the Human Sciences, 2021Fenneke Sysling
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