Plastic Maps: The New Brain Cartographies of the 21th-Century Neurosciences [0.03%]
塑料脑图：21世纪神经科学的新大脑地图集
Carmela Morabito
Carmela Morabito
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 alw...
Beyond the Neuro-Realism Fallacy. From John R. Mallard’s Hand-painted MRI Image of a Mouse to BioArt Scenarios [0.03%]
走出神经实在论的谬误——从约翰·R·马尔福德的手绘鼠标MRI图像到生物艺术构想
Silvia Casini
Silvia Casini
This article examines visual practices inside the laboratory and in the arts, highlighting a problem of reductionism in the transformation from data to images and in the visual incarnation of the neuro-realism fallacy, that is the extreme i...
It Blinks, It Thinks? Luminous Brains and a Visual Culture of Electric Display, circa 1930 [0.03%]
它闪烁，它思考？发光的脑与20世纪30年代的视觉文化的电光展示
Flora Lysen
Flora Lysen
This article traces attempts in the 1930s to create a spatio-temporal model of the active, living brain. Images and models of electric, illuminated displays – derived from electro-technology and engineering – allowed for a changing imagin...
Of the Artistic Nude and Technological Behaviorism. Leon Harmon and the First Steps towards Neuromorphic Hardware [0.03%]
论艺术裸体与技术行为主义：Leon Harmon及其神经形态硬件早期研究步骤
Mattia Della Rocca
Mattia Della Rocca
Neuromorphic technologies lie at the core of 21st century neuroscience, especially in the “big brain science” projects started in 2013 – i.e. the BRAIN Initiative and the Human Brain Project. While neuromorphism and the “reverse enginee...
Lucky Triune Brain. Chronicles of Paul D. MacLean’s Neuro-Catchword [0.03%]
幸运的三联脑：保罗·D·麦克莱恩神经科学术语录回忆錄
Claudio Pogliano
Claudio Pogliano
The triune brain idea has been rated as the most influential in post-war neuroscience. The first part of this article seeks to retrace its genesis and development through the vicissitudes of the research conducted by Paul D. MacLean (1913–...
Soups and Sparks Revisited John Eccles’ Path from the War on Electrical Transmission to Mental Sparks [0.03%]
再论汤与火花——约翰·埃克尔斯从战时研究电力传输到探究心灵火花的历程
Cornelius Borck
Cornelius Borck
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 camp...
Between the Mind Twist and the Brain Spot. The Material Dimensions of Psychopathology in the Work of Elmer Ernest Southard [0.03%]
心灵迷宫与大脑定位：埃尔默·埃内斯特·萨索德作品中的心理病理学物质维度
Tara H Abraham
Tara H Abraham
This paper explores the material and visual practices that defined studies of psychopathology in early twentieth-century American medicine, through a close look at the work of neuropathologist Elmer E. Southard (1876–1920). As a discipline...
Mattia Della Rocca,Claudio Pogliano
Mattia Della Rocca
Figuring Things Out: Visualization in the Work of Swedish Anatomists Anders and Gustaf Retzius, 1829-1921 [0.03%]
抽丝剥茧：安德斯与古斯塔夫·雷提乌斯父子的绘画工作（1829-1921）
Eva Åhrén
Eva Åhrén
Swedish anatomists Anders and Gustaf Retzius, father and son, collaborated with artists, photographers, and printers to produce image plates for their many publications in normal, comparative, morbid, and microscopic anatomy. This article e...
David Ferrier's Experimental Localization of Cerebral Functions and the Anti-Vivisection Debate [0.03%]
戴维·费里尔的实验性大脑功能定位与反对活体解剖的争论
Carmela Morabito
Carmela Morabito
While representing one of the most important developments in the knowledge of the brain, both for its theoretical advances and its medical consequences, the work of David Ferrier met with strong criticism from conservative circles in Victor...