Challenging the supremacy of the frontal lobe: Early views (1906-1909) of Christfried Jakob on the human cerebral cortex

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-25

  Théodoridou, Zoë D ^a   Triarhou, Lazaros C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Christfried Jakob; Frontal lobe; History of neuroscience; Localization of cognitive functions

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DEMENTIA; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE CYCLE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MYELINATION; MYELOARCHITECTONIC; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONTOGENY; PARALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PHYLOGENY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RED NUCLEUS; SENILITY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NEUROLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84855191557     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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