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Preface |
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Part 1 Imagining the brain between body and soul |
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Chapter 1 Ventricular localization in late antiquity: The philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain function |
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1 A note on dates, language, and terminology |
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2 The importance of brain substance in ancient theories of brain function |
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3 The invention of ventricular localization |
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4 Imagining the brain as a lyre |
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Chapter 2 The pathological and the normal: Mapping the brain in medieval medicine |
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1 Complications within the model of the normal brain |
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2 The pathological brain versus the normal brain |
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3 Cognitive dysfunction and complexity: Squaring the circle with the tripartite theory |
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3.1 Melancholia reconsidered |
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3.2 Oblivio or forgetfulness reimagined |
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4 The sleeper and the child: Non-functional versus dysfunctional cognition |
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Chapter 3 Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nerves |
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2 Searching for the rational soul |
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3 The animal soul and the limits of anatomy |
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5 Conclusion: Modernity and material cognition |
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Chapter 4 Gaetano Zumbo's anatomical wax model: From skull to cranium |
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3 The cross section of the brain as face |
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Part 2 Representing the brain and the nervous system: Styles, media, practices |
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Chapter 5 The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell's anatomical watercolors |
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1 "What the world will speak of is my drawings" |
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2 Bell's contributions to the anatomy of the nervous system |
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3 Expression in anatomy and the fine arts |
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4 The legacy of Bell's representative practices |
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Chapter 6 Gertrude Stein's modernist brain |
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2 Gertrude Stein and experimental psychology |
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3 Neuroanatomy, neuroembryology and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: Stein's medical training |
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5 Brain is a brain is a brain is a brain: Boredom as disobedience |
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Chapter 7 Imagining the brain as a book: Oskar and Cecile Vogt's "library of brains" |
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Chapter 8 Pinpricks: Needling, numbness, and temporalities of pain |
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2 Measurement and metaphor |
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3 Mediating agency and materiality |
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5 Materiality of the mind |
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Part 3 Inside the brain: Arguments and evidence in the making of the modern neurosciences |
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Chapter 9 From images to physiology: A strange paradox at the origin of modern neuroscience |
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1 Thirty-three years before: A methodological revolution in a domestic laboratory |
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3 From structure to function |
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5 Similar histological slides, completely different interpretation |
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7 Morphological algorithm |
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9 Theory-driven observations |
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Chapter 10 One, no-one and a hundred thousand brains: J.C. Eccles, J.Z. Young and the establishment of the neurosciences (1930s-1960s) |
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1 Introduction-Patterns, the brain and the history of the neurosciences |
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1.1 The pattern, the instructions, and the historian's "set" |
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3 Doubt and certainty in science-The natural history of the researcher |
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4 The neurophysiological basis of mind: Physiology as a science of man |
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5 Real scientists and imagined brains: Representation and self-representation |
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5.1 Self-representations. What they were, what they were not, what they became |
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5.2 Constructing representations. From experimental systems to imagined brains |
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5.3 Representations-Imagined brains |
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7 Key to archival sources |
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Chapter 11 Seeing patterns in neuroimaging data |
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2 Interpreting neuroimaging data |
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2.1 Finding representations in parahippocampal cortex |
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3 Criticizing neuroimaging research |
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3.1 MVPA: Finding information or finding representations |
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4 Data analysis techniques as lenses |
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5 Seeing through patterns |
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