PSYC 305 Lecture 8: Chapter 8 - Part 2 - Mechanization and Quantification
7 Mar 2017
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The search for the soul and the mind continued, with an added help from methodological tools of science. Although many of the theories presented in the first part of the chapter turned out to be false, It was time to dig deeper and find meaning. afferent and efferent roots of the spinal column. The bell-magendie law reflected the discoveries of the localization of function of. Sir charles bell (first!) established the motor functions of the spinal cord. Fran ois magendie demonstrated the sensory root of the spinal cord. One preceded the other, but the other provided more information. Johannes m ller (1801-1858) argued for further localization of function. He proposed the doctrine of specific nerve energies. He argued that qualities of the nerve caused the qualities of perception within a given sense. He argued that a nerve is only capable of transmitting one type of sensation. M ller"s work was extremely influential for the trichromatic color theory of.
