Article ID: CBB021785102

Synthesis of contraries: Hughlings Jackson on sensory-motor representation in the brain (2019)

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This paper examines the concept of representation in the brain which occurs in the writings of the neurologist John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911). Jackson was immersed in Victorian physiological psychology, a hybrid of British associationism and a reflex theory of the operation of the nervous system. Furthermore, Jackson was deeply influenced by Herbert Spencer, and I argue that Spencer's progressivist evolutionary ideas are in tension with the more mechanistic approach of the reflex theory. I also discuss Jackson's legacy in the 20th century and the longstanding debate about localisation of function in the brain.

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Authors & Contributors
Steinberg, David A.
Bacquemont, Daniel
Brzezinski Prestes, María Elice de
Cook, Mark J.
Eadie, M. J.
Eadie, Mervyn J.
Journals
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of Medical Biography
Journal of the History of Biology
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Publishers
Oxford University Press
College Publications
Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa
MIT Press
Palgrave Macmillan
The Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College London
Concepts
Brain localization
Neurology
Neurosciences
Brain
Medicine
Psychology
People
Jackson, John Hughlings
Bain, Alexander
Bergson, Henri Louis
Bouillaud, Jean Baptiste
Diderot, Denis
Ferrier, David
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
London (England)
England
United States
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Institutions
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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