Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain/ Mark Frauenfelder

HUMAN SKULL INSCRIBED BY A PHRENOLOGIST Anonymous, nineteenth century. Photograph by Eszter Blahak/Semmelweis Museum.
Historically, the primary concern of neuroscience has been location. In the mass of flesh that is the human body, where is the mind? Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Franz Joseph Gall built an influential theory that posited that distinct areas of the cerebrum serve distinct faculties such as emotions, moral impulses and the intellect.

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Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain