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Bugault, Guy. "L'anthropologie bouddhiste face à la philosophie moderne et à la neurophysiologie contemporaine." Revue de l'histoire des religions 203, no. 4 (1986): 381–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/rhr.1986.2576.

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Ros, Arno. "Bemerkungen Zum Verhältnis Zwischen Neurophysiologie Und Psychologie." Journal for General Philosophy of Science 27, no. 1 (March 1996): 91–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02310673.

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Städtler, Michael. "Christine Zunke, Kritik der Hirnforschung—Neurophysiologie und Willensfreiheit." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13, no. 4 (December 10, 2009): 473–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-009-9216-0.

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PROHOVNIK, ISAK. "Neurophysiology of Electroconvulsive Therapy." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 462, no. 1 Electroconvul (March 1986): 232–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb51257.x.

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SUZUKI, WENDY A., and HOWARD EICHENBAUM. "The Neurophysiology of Memory." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 911, no. 1 (January 25, 2006): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06726.x.

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Kistler, Max. "Cognition and Neurophysiology: Mechanism, Reduction, and Pluralism." Philosophical Psychology 22, no. 5 (October 2009): 539–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515080903238922.

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Ionita, Catalina, and Edward J. Fine. "A Romanian Neurologist and Neurophysiologist." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2003): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jhin.12.2.206.15536.

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Hermans, Laurie, and Katía Truijen. "Something Temporary: In Search of Circular Time." APRIA Journal 3, no. 2 (March 4, 2021): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.37198/apria.03.02.a2.

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Since the invention of the atomic clock, one could say time has been perceived as a resource which can be divided, controlled and 'owned.' While it is evident that today's modes of production are not sustainable, there is no clear pathway to a more sustainable future. In six episodes,Something Temporary examines different perceptions and forms (sustainable, circular) of time through interviews, field recordings, music and exercises in experiencing time: from the pace of the Rotterdam harbour and high-frequency trading to circadian rhythms and non-human notions of time. The first episode,Time = Experience, examines how we experience time as human beings, the circadian rhythm and how it relates to rhythms of society and different approaches to time, informed by the fields of chronobiology and philosophy, with contributions by philosopher and writer Joke Hermsen, professor of neurophysiology Joke Meijer, and music by LY Foulidis.

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Landreth, Anthony, and John Bickle. "NEUROECONOMICS, NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND THE COMMON CURRENCY HYPOTHESIS." Economics and Philosophy 24, no. 3 (November 2008): 419–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267108002058.

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We briefly describe ways in which neuroeconomics has made contributions to its contributing disciplines, especially neuroscience, and a specific way in which it could make future contributions to both. The contributions of a scientific research programme can be categorized in terms of (1) description and classification of phenomena, (2) the discovery of causal relationships among those phenomena, and (3) the development of tools to facilitate (1) and (2). We consider ways in which neuroeconomics has advanced neuroscience and economics along each line. Then, focusing on electrophysiological methods, we consider a puzzle within neuroeconomics whose solution we believe could facilitate contributions to both neuroscience and economics, in line with category (2). This puzzle concerns how the brain assigns reward values to otherwise incomparable stimuli. According to the common currency hypothesis, dopamine release is a component of a neural mechanism that solves comparability problems. We review two versions of the common currency hypothesis, one proposed by Read Montague and colleagues, the other by William Newsome and colleagues, and fit these hypotheses into considerations of rational choice.

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Hatfield, Gary. "The Brain's "New" Science: Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint." Philosophy of Science 67 (September 2000): S388—S403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/392833.

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WILLIS, WILLIAM D. "Dorsal Horn Neurophysiology of Pain." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 531, no. 1 Neurological (June 1988): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb31815.x.

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Woodland, Philip, Daniel Sifrim, Anne Lund Krarup, Christina Brock, Jens Brøndum Frøkjaer, Christian Lottrup, Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, Lee L. Swanstrom, and Adam D. Farmer. "The neurophysiology of the esophagus." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1300, no. 1 (October 2013): 53–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12238.

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GUÉRIT, Jean-Michel. "L'évaluation neurophysiologique de la conscience chez le patient comateux ou végétatif." Revue Philosophique de Louvain 98, no. 4 (November 1, 2000): 659–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/rpl.98.4.542005.

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Gillett, G. R. "The Neurophilosophy of Pain." Philosophy 66, no. 256 (April 1991): 191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100053067.

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The ability to feel pain is a property of human beings that seems to be based entirely in our biological natures and to place us squarely within the animal kingdom. Yet the experience of pain is often used as an example of a mental attribute with qualitative properties that defeat attempts to identify mental events with physiological mechanisms. I will argue that neurophysiology and psychology help to explain the interwoven biological and subjective features of pain and recommend a view of pain which differs in important respects from the one most commonly accepted.

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Muralt, Alexander. "THE ROLE OF THIAMINE IN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 98, no. 2 (December 15, 2006): 499–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1962.tb30571.x.

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RUFF, ROBERT L. "Neurophysiology of the Neuromuscular Junction: Overview." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 998, no. 1 (September 2003): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1254.002.

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Peterson, Steven A. "Neurophysiology, Cognition, and Political Thinking." Political Psychology 6, no. 3 (September 1985): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3791084.

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Borck, Cornelius. "John C. Eccles (1903-1997): Neurophysiologist and Neurophilosopher." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 7, no. 1 (June 11, 1998): 76–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jhin.7.1.76.13093.

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Borck, Cornelius. "Soups and Sparks Revisited." Nuncius 32, no. 2 (2017): 286–329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03202003.

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In the famous debate whether neurons communicate via chemical mediators or electrical signals, Henry Dale and Otto Loewi mounted powerful evidence on the mediation of nervous activity by chemical transmitters, while John Eccles led the campaign for the electrophysiologists. Eventually, Eccles converted to chemical transmission, when he identified excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials initiated by the release of chemical neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft. This well-known episode from the history of neurophysiology counts as a rare instance of philosophy of science advancing scientific research, because the philosopher Karl Popper had encouraged Eccles to theorize an experiment proving the falsity of his own interpretation – according to Popper’s philosophy of science progressing by falsification. The paper shows how Eccles’ intellectual mobilization was grounded in a series of geographical moves, technological adaptations and re-arrangements of his group. This massive travel of people, ideas, instruments, and techniques mediated between the contradictory views, long before Popper kindled Eccles to reflect about the conflicting paradigms and the new theorizing did hardly change his experimental practice. Popper’s immediate effect was a critical and reflexive distance that enabled Eccles to present his evidence more persuasively, as can be shown from archival sources. The exchanges between Eccles and Popper thus shaped the philosophy of falsification to a powerful strategy for writing science.

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TRAMO, M. J. "Neurophysiology and Neuroanatomy of Pitch Perception: Auditory Cortex." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1060, no. 1 (December 1, 2005): 148–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1360.011.

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Lazar, J. Wayne. "American neurophysiology and two nineteenth-century American Physiological Societies." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 26, no. 2 (July 5, 2016): 154–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0964704x.2016.1188527.

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Fine, Edward J., Agnes Supala, and Linda A. Lohr. "Neurognostics Question: A German Neurophysiologist and Researcher of Human Reflexes." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 14, no. 4 (December 2005): 320–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040500341629.

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Fine, Edward J., Sidney H. Sobel, and Tara Manteghi. "Question 22: America?s First Neurophysiologist, Neuroanatomist and Medical Educator." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 12, no. 4 (December 1, 2003): 436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jhin.12.4.436.27920.

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ROGAWSKI, M. A., M. C. BEINFELD, S. E. HAYS, T. HÖKFELT, and L. R. SKIRBOLL. "Cholecystokinin and Cultured Spinal Neurons Immunohistochemistry, Receptor Binding, and Neurophysiologya." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 448, no. 1 (July 1985): 403–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1985.tb29934.x.

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REITER, RUSSEL J., ROSA M. SAINZ, SILVIA LOPEZ-BURILLO, JUAN C. MAYO, LUCIEN C. MANCHESTER, and DUN XIAN TAN. "Melatonin Ameliorates Neurologic Damage and Neurophysiologic Deficits in Experimental Models of Stroke." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 993, no. 1 (May 2003): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07509.x.

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MISTRETTA, CHARLOTTE M. "Anatomy and Neurophysiology of the Taste System in Aged Animals." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 561, no. 1 Nutrition and (June 1989): 277–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb20989.x.

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Kline, Nathan S. "ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, AND OTHER DISCIPLINES." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 92, no. 3 (December 15, 2006): 1004–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1961.tb40973.x.

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BOECKH, J., K. D. ERNST, and P. SELSAM. "Neurophysiology and Neuroanatomy of the Olfactory Pathway in the Cockroach." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 510, no. 1 Olfaction and (November 1987): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb43464.x.

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Vein, Alla A. "Science and Fate: Lina Stern (1878–1968), A Neurophysiologist and Biochemist." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 17, no. 2 (April 9, 2008): 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040601138478.

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Kernohan, Andrew. "Psychology: Autonomous or Anomalous?" Dialogue 24, no. 3 (1985): 427–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300040300.

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In a recent series of papers, Donald Davidson has put forward a challenging and original philosophy of mind which he has called anomalous monism. Anomalous monism has certain similarities to another recent and deservedly popular position: functionalist cognitive psychology. Both functionalism, in its materialist versions, and anomalous monism require token-token psychophysical identities rather than type-type ones. (Token identities are identities between individual events; type identities represent a stronger claim of identities between interesting sorts of events.) Both deny that psychology can be translated into, or scientifically reduced to, neurophysiology. Both are mentalistic theories, allowing psychology to make use of intentional descriptions in its theorizing. Anomalous monism uses a belief/desire/action psychology; cognitive science makes use of information-bearing states. But these similarities must not be allowed to conceal an essential difference between the two positions. Cognitive psychology claims to be a science, making interesting, lawlike generalizations for the purpose of explaining mental activity. Anomalous monism denies that psychology is a science by denying that psychological laws can be formulated. Davidson has other ideas for psychology connected with his work on meaning and truth. Hence, the title of one of his essays on anomalous monism is “Psychology as Philosophy”.

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Smith, C. U. M. "Descartes' Visit to the Town Library, or how Augustinian is Descartes' Neurophysiology?" Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 7, no. 2 (August 1, 1998): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jhin.7.2.93.1868.

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Chernigovskaya, Tatiana V. "More on Brain and Semiosis: Can We Find a Point in Neuronets?" Voprosy Filosofii, no. 6 (2021): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-6-5-13.

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The paper discusses semiotic aspects of higher human functions and a possibility and relevance of traditional search for their neurophysiological basis. The state of the art on the subject is reviewed and the lack of data on anthropological specificity for reasoning, thinking, language and its AI modeling is highlighted. Experimental neuroscience presumes that if we know the characteristics of neurons and their connections, we automatically understand what mind and consciousness are. However, it is evident that such a paradigm does not allow us to get relevant answers to the main questions. I argue that the problem should be dealt with not only within the field of neurophysiology proper. Rather, such research should involve exploring the 'archeology' of mental processes as they are revealed in arts as well as in other symbolic spaces. The paper discusses the adequacy of physiological methodology when it is employed to demonstrate brain mechanisms of higher functions. Besides, I explore the relevance of juxtaposing similar data from other biological and artificial intelligent systems. I view language processing, mind and reasoning and 1st person experience (qualia) as human specific features, and questions the possibility of direct testing these phenomena. The paper links genetic, anthropological and neurophysiological data to semiotic activity and semiosphere formation as the basis for communication. The paper discusses the place of humans in the changing world in the context of new cognitive dimensions.

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Chernigovskaya, Tatiana V., Viktor M. Allakhverdov, Alexander D. Korotkov, Valeria A. Gershkovich, Maxim V. Kireev, and Veronika K. Prokopenya. "Human brain and ambiguity of cognitive information: A convergent approach." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 36, no. 4 (2020): 675–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.406.

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The article analyses the implementation of the convergent approach on the example of studying mechanisms for selecting meanings in situations of ambiguity by the methods of cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neurophysiology. We describe the rationale of the problem statement for convergent research and the necessary prerequisites for implementing an interdisciplinary approach. We consider that in case of ambiguity resolution the special mechanism provides the choice: which meaning would enter consciousness (and he / she becomes aware of it), and which — is rejected. That being said, the unselected meaning is not simply ignored, but rather actively suppressed. Such suppression results in its negative after-effect; more precisely the difficulty of retrieving the previously suppressed information. In our research the fMRI method made it possible to study brain mechanisms involved in the selection of a word’s meaning while behavioral methods allowed for the study of the after-effects of this selection. Thanks to the mutual development of a design by representatives of cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neurophysiology, it is possible to overcome the considerable methodological incompatibility of those methods. The results discovered in behavioral psychological research demonstrated negative after-effects of the rejected meaning. However, without the neurophysiological approach the data would remain unclear due to two possible interpretations. As a result of the analysis of the brain functional activity, the decrease in the localized hippocampal activity during the selection of meaning for an ambiguous word was revealed. This supports the hypothesis that the involvement of suppression processes in ambiguity resolution exists. Our work once again illustrates how important forethought and a philosophical foundation of the question posed is for interdisciplinary research regarding the processes of brain mechanisms. Unification of the efforts of representatives of various sciences provides qualitative new knowledge, which would not be possible to achieve in a different experimental situation.

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Hawgood, Barbara J. "Professor Sir William Liley (1929–83): New Zealand Perinatal Physiologist." Journal of Medical Biography 13, no. 2 (May 2005): 82–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777200501300205.

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William (Bill) Liley received his MB ChB from Otago University, Dunedin (New Zealand), in 1954. Under the guidance of the neurophysiologist Professor J C Eccles (1903–97), he carried out major research on neuromuscular transmission, both as an undergraduate at Otago University and as a postgraduate at the Australian National University at Canberra. In 1957 Bill Liley switched to research in obstetrics at the Women's National Hospital at Auckland in New Zealand. He refined the diagnostic procedure for rhesus haemolytic disease of the newborn and was able to predict its severity. Liley developed the technique of intrauterine transfusion of rhesus-negative blood for severely affected fetuses and led the team that carried out the first successful fetal transfusions in the world. He was a passionate advocate of the medical and societal rights of the unborn child.

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Dawson, William J. "How and Why Musicians Are Different from Nonmusicians: A Bibliographic Review." Medical Problems of Performing Artists 26, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21091/mppa.2011.2011.

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Musicians differ from nonmusicians in many ways; their many special skills reflect the fact that their brains are built differently and function differently. This review of 172 references from PAMA’s bibliographic database reveals that most differences occur in the neurobiological realm, in contrast to those of gross anatomy and physiology. Gross changes occur in both cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres and in both gray and white matter. Neurophysiologic differences, measured by sophisticated imaging and electrophysiological techniques, are revealed in sound processing in general, as well as in multiple parameters of music perception, processing, and performance. Most of the neurological differences, both structural and functional, seem to be related to the early age of onset, intense degree, and prolonged duration of musical training and affect multiple, widespread areas of the brain. Training-related differences extend beyond the musical realm to speech, special senses, and general mental parameters and are seen in both instrumental and vocal musicians. A small percentage of reviewed papers demonstrated no appreciable differences between musicians and nonmusicians in a few parameters.

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Pecere, Paolo. "Reconsidering the ignorabimus: du Bois-Reymond and the hard problem of consciousness." Science in Context 33, no. 1 (March 2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889720000095.

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ArgumentIn this paper I present an interpretation of du Bois-Reymond’s thesis on the impossibility of a scientific explanation of consciousness and of its present importance. I reconsider du Bois-Reymond’s speech “On the limits of natural science” (1872) in the context of nineteenth-century German philosophy and neurophysiology, pointing out connections and analogies with contemporary arguments on the “hard problem of consciousness.” Du Bois-Reymond’s position turns out to be grounded on an epistemological argument and characterized by a metaphysical skepticism, motivated by the unfruitful speculative tendency of contemporary German philosophy and natural science. In the final sections, I show how contemporary research can benefit from a reconsideration of this position and its context of emergence, which is a good vantage point to trace open problems in consciousness studies back to their historical development.

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Schmidgen, Henning. "Cybernetic times: Norbert Wiener, John Stroud, and the ‘brain clock’ hypothesis." History of the Human Sciences 33, no. 1 (February 2020): 80–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695119880662.

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In 1955, Norbert Wiener suggested a sociological model according to which all forms of culture ultimately depended on the temporal coordination of human activities, in particular their synchronization. The basis for Wiener’s model was provided by his insights into the temporal structures of cerebral processes. This article reconstructs the historical context of Wiener’s ‘brain clock’ hypothesis, largely via his dialogues with John W. Stroud and other scholars working at the intersection of neurophysiology, experimental psychology, and electrical engineering. Since the 19th century, physiologists and psychologists have been conducting experimental investigations into the relation between time and the brain. Using innovative instruments and technologies, Stroud rehearsed these experiments, in part without paying any attention at all to the experimental traditions involved. Against this background, this article argues that the novelty of Wiener’s model relies largely on his productive rephrasing of physiological and psychological findings that had been established long before the Second World War.

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Lohff, Brigitte. "Facts and Philosophy in Neurophysiology. The 200th Anniversary of Johannes M�ller (1801?1858)." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2001): 277–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jhin.10.3.277.9092.

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Schurr, Peter H. "Sir Hugh Cairns KBE MD FRCS (1896–1952): Neurosurgeon." Journal of Medical Biography 1, no. 4 (November 1993): 202–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096777209300100404.

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The pioneers of neurosurgery in nineteenth century Britain, such as Macewen and Horsley, were hampered by insufficient knowledge of neurology and neurophysiology, inadequate anaesthesia, and an underdeveloped surgical technique. By the early years of this century, however, advances had taken place which were seized upon by Harvey Cushing, the American who became the father of modern neurological surgery. Three people were the pillars upon which British neurosurgery has stood: if Norman Dott was the best technician among them and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson the most genial and philosophical, it was Sir Hugh Cairns (Figure 1) who was the greatest teacher1. Cairns had an attractive personality combined with infinite drive and dedication. He allowed nothing to stand in his way if he felt that what he was doing was right. He was a man who inspired his colleagues with respect and devotion and who served his patients and the institutions with which he worked with incredible energy and determination.

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Casper, Stephen T. "Of Means and Ends: Mind and Brain Science in the Twentieth Century." Science in Context 28, no. 1 (February 9, 2015): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889714000295.

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What role does context play in the mind and brain sciences? This introductory article, “Of Means and Ends,” explores that question through its focus on the ways scientists and physicians engaged with and constructed technology in the mind and brain sciences in the twentieth century. This topical issue addresses how scientists, physicians, and psychologists came to see the ends of technology as important in-and-of themselves. In so doing, the authors of these essays offer an interpretation of historian Paul Forman's revisionist and highly contextualist chronology of the twentieth century, which presents the comparatively recent tendency to aggrandize the ends of technology as evidence of a major, epochal transformation in the epistemic culture of twentieth-century American science. This collection of papers suggests that it was in the vanguard of such fields as psychology, psychiatry, and neurophysiology in North America and Europe that the ends and applications of technology became important in-and-of themselves.

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Métraux, Alexandre. "Impure Epistemology and the Search for the Nervous Agent: A Case Study in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Neurophysics." Science in Context 9, no. 1 (1996): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700002313.

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The ArgumentIn this contribution, I argue for epistemological impurity as the key to the historical reconstruction of the proto-biological sciences of the eighteenth century.The traditional approaches to the more or less complex and more or less stratified past of science either focus on the ideal content of that which has in the meantime been recognized as standard biological knowledge (transmitted from generation to generation by textbooks) or otherwise try to uncover the implicit cognitive principles at work in order to reveal their shortcomings (as measured against today's accepted criteria = epistemological presentism).A closer look at the breakdown of the classical models of mechanistic explanation and the detailed analysis of the new empirico-experimental research in the neurophysiology of the eighteenth century shows, however, that eclectic procedures of various kinds have dominated the field. This eclecticism (the principle of epistemological impurity) supported, and was in turn supported by, what has recently become known as “thinking with one's hand.” The paper illustrates this specific kind of thinking (and experimental acting) with reference to the case of Nicolas Le Cat's microphysics of nervous activity.

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MORABITO, CARMELA. "MARY A. B. BRAZIER, A History of Neurophysiology in the 19th Century, New York, Raven Press 1988, xvi + 265 pp." Nuncius 5, no. 1 (1990): 289–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/182539190x00868.

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Grant, Gunnar. "The 1932 and 1944 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine: Rewards for Ground-Breaking Studies in Neurophysiology." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 15, no. 4 (November 22, 2006): 341–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040600638981.

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Stahnisch, Frank W. "Instrument Transfer as Knowledge Transfer in Neurophysiology: François Magendie's (1783–1855) Early Attempts to Measure Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 17, no. 1 (January 2008): 72–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040600913699.

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RASINI, VALLORI. "ALLE ORIGINI DELLA TEORIA DELL'ATTO BIOLOGICO DI VIKTOR VON WEIZSCKER." Nuncius 14, no. 2 (1999): 471–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/182539199x00049.

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Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title Between the thirties and forties of this century, drawing on a number of studies of perception and phenomena of sensory illusion, the neurophysiologist Viktor von Weizsacker developed a conception of organic matter which was fundamentally different to the physiological and biological tradition of his time. For this reason, his theory of the Gestaltkreis required a profound revision of the methodological and conceptual instruments to be used in the study of man, and of the organism more generally. The organic entity is not a comparible object to the entities of physics, and its analysis cannot be subjected to the same criteria and methods of that science. This being is properly termed a biological act, a dynamic reality whose structure is circular and cannot be divided into different phases connected by means of causal relationships. Organic processes involve a particular relationship between the biological entity and its environment, and as a consequence it is impossible to remove it from its context. Instead, it is necessary to evaluate the spatial and temporal positions in which it is located in new, non-objective terms. Weizscker's conception, sensitive to the movement of neovitalism (to which he was nonetheless firmly opposed) and to ideas typical of Romantic science, is essentially opposed to the legacy of mechanism, in the name of a biology as the science of a peculiar object, of which one cannot ignore the subjective component.

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Fine, Edward J., and Linda Lohr. "Neurognostics Question: An American Neurophysiologist, Pioneer of Electromyography, A President of Universities and Scientific Advisor to United States Presidents." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 15, no. 2 (July 2006): 129–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647040600572123.

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Williams, Charlie. "On ‘modified human agents’: John Lilly and the paranoid style in American neuroscience." History of the Human Sciences 32, no. 5 (October 9, 2019): 84–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695119872094.

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The personal papers of the neurophysiologist John C. Lilly at Stanford University hold a classified paper he wrote in the late 1950s on the behavioural modification and control of ‘human agents’. The paper provides an unnerving prognosis of the future application of Lilly’s research, then being carried out at the National Institute of Mental Health. Lilly claimed that the use of sensory isolation, electrostimulation of the brain, and the recording and mapping of brain activity could be used to gain ‘push-button’ control over motivation and behaviour. This research, wrote Lilly, could eventually lead to ‘master-slave controls directly of one brain over another’. The paper is an explicit example of Lilly’s preparedness to align his research towards Cold War military aims. It is not, however, the research for which Lilly is best known. During the 1960s and 1970s, Lilly developed cult status as a far-out guru of consciousness exploration, promoting the use of psychedelics and sensory isolation tanks. Lilly argued that, rather than being used as tools of brainwashing, these techniques could be employed by the individual to regain control of their own mind and retain a sense of agency over their thoughts and actions. This article examines the scientific, intellectual, and cultural relationship between the sciences of brainwashing and psychedelic mind alteration. Through an analysis of Lilly’s autobiographical writings, I also show how paranoid ideas about brainwashing and mind control provide an important lens for understanding the trajectory of Lilly’s research.

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Joravsky, David. "The Impossible project of Ivan Pavlov (and William James and sigmund Freud)." Science in Context 5, no. 2 (1992): 265–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700001186.

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The ArgumentIn different contexts, beginning with different concerns, Pavlov, James, and Freud tried to achieve a neurophysiological explanation of mind, and suffered defeat. James and Freud acknowledged the defeat and attempted, in radically different ways, to construct an interim psychology, hoping that neural explanation would be achieved in the future. Pavlov came to the effort in his fifties, after decades of research that took for granted a sharp separation between neurophysiology and psychology. He changed his mind as he noticed the descent of his discipline from study of whole-body and organ functions to concentration on the neuron and the molecule. Pavlov thought to save the discipline from chaos by providing laws of “higher nervous activity” to serve as an organizing framework. Hence his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the obvious errors in his supposed neural explanation of conditioned reflexes. The Russian context of ideological division and extreme social conflict reinforced the unwitting retreat of Pavlov and his school into a scientistic counterculture, while claiming to be developing the ultimate neural explanation of the mind. In countries of less extreme conflicts, classical conditioning continued to be a focal point of discord between psychologists who accept the inevitability of mentalist concepts and neuroscientists who insist that they must be avoided. In any context, neural explanation of mental phenomena has been a project that is impossible to avoid and impossible to accomplish.

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Morabito, Carmela. "Luigi Luciani and the Localization of Brain Functions: Italian Research Within the Context of European Neurophysiology at the End of the Nineteenth Century." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 9, no. 2 (August 1, 2000): 180–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/0964-704x(200008)9:2;1-y;ft180.

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Grüsser, Otto-Joachim, Hermann Kapp, and Ursula Grüsser-Cornehls. "Microelectrode Investigations of the Visual System at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Freiburg i.Br.: A Historical Account of the First 10 Years, 1951–1960." Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 14, no. 3 (September 2005): 257–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/096470490512454.

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