Article ID: CBB458192414

Plastic Maps: The New Brain Cartographies of the 21th-Century Neurosciences: From Phrenological Heads to Connectomics (2017)

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Ever since the phrenological heads of the early 19th century, maps have translated into images our ideas, theories and models of the brain, making this organ at one and the same time scientific object and representation. Brain maps have always served as gateways for navigating and visualizing neuroscientific knowledge, and over time many different maps have been produced – firstly as tools to “read” and analyse the cerebral territory, then as instruments to produce new models of the brain. Over the last 150 years brain cartography has evolved from a way of identifying brain regions and localizing them for clinical use to an anatomical framework onto which information about local properties and functions can be integrated to provide a view of the brain’s structural and functional architecture. In this paper a historical and epistemological consideration of the topic is offered as a contribution to the understanding of contemporary brain mapping, based on the assumption that the brain continuously rewires itself in relation to individual experience.

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Article Mattia Della Rocca; Claudio Pogliano (2017) Different Histories from 20th Century Neuroscience: Introduction. Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 253-260). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lorenzo, Alfredo
Shread, Carolyn
Ramon Grau
de Olmos, Soledad
Vaughan, Laura
Jeffrey P. Stone
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Neurosciences
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Brain
Discipline formation
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Barcelona (Spain)
Catalonia (Spain)
Greece
France
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
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