Nineteenth-Century Inhibitory Theories of Thinking: Bain, Ferrier, Freud (and Phineas Gage)

History of Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 187-217

  Macmillan, Malcolm ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTORY; HUMAN; PATIENT; PHILOSOPHY; THINKING;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PATIENTS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; THINKING;

EID: 0034242640     PISSN: 10934510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.3.3.187     Document Type: Article

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