PMID: 11608941Oct 20, 2001Paper

Luigi Luciani and the localization of brain functions: Italian research within the context of European neurophysiology at the end of the nineteenth century

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
C Morabito

Abstract

Luigi Luciani, the Italian physiologist who lived during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, is generally remembered for his studies on the cerebellum, the physiology of the heart, the respiratory system and on fasting. Less well known is the experimental research he carried out in the field of cerebral localization. It should however be pointed out that, as a result of his work in experimental neurophysiology between the years 1875 and 1885, Luciani was perfectly familiar with the latest findings on the relationship between brain and behavioral functions, but above all he was led by this work to develop an interesting model for the description of brain functions. He refined this model in a close dialectic relationship, of comparison and contrast, with the theories of the leading European neurophysiologists of his time - either those who favored a localizationistic explanation of the brain's functions or those who opposed this view. This paper gives a quick presentation of Luciani's experimental work on the functions of the brain as well as what he thought of the question of cerebral localization. His localizationistic model is compared - both in its general characteristics and in its...Continue Reading

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Jan 24, 2008·Current Biology : CB·Giovanni Berlucchi
Sep 15, 2014·Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·Maria Teresa Brancaccio

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