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- Size of Certain Areas of the Brain Can Determine PersonalityPhrenology is an old pseudoscience that determined personality traits by measuring the bumps on the skull. They should have been measuring bumps on the brain instead.
- Psychoanalysis Through Phrenology: Franz Josef Gall's Most Interesting TheoryThis essay gives a summary and interpretation of the work of German physician Franz Gall and his development of Phrenology. It also references the opinions of many of his toughest critics in the field of psychoanalysis.
- George Combe and the British Influence on American EducationGeorge Combe, brother of Andrew Combe, Scottish physiologist; was a writer on phrenology and education. He was born in Edinburgh, where for some time he practised as a lawyer.
- Finding Language in the Brain: What Structures Are Involved and How Do We Know?Language is a complex phenomenon and as such has equally complex neural underpinnings. This article attempts to present a very brief overview of what parts of the brain give rise to speech.
Brain Scans and Phrenology: The Continued Search for a Reductionist View of the Human BrainHas current brain research yielded usable information? Does the new research in Quantum biology hold possible missing aspects? What do we know about the brain?