GA Russell, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002883
1839–1912 Prussian physiologist whose pioneering experimental investigation of localization of function in the cerebral cortex influenced subsequent brain research in anatomy, physiology, pathology and psychology.
Keywords: Müller; du Bois-Reymond; Virchow; Traube; Ferrier; brain function; cerebral cortex; localization; occipital lobe; vision; cortical blindness; psychic blindness; retinal projections; ablation techniques; hearing
| Further Reading | |
| Munk H (1879) Weitere zur Physiologie der Sehsphäre der Grosshirnrinde. Verhandlungen der Physiologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, pp. 581–594. | |
| Munk H (1879) Physiologie der Sehsphäre der Grosshirnrinde. Centralblatt für praktische Augenheilkinde 3: 255–266. | |
| book Munk H (1881) Über die Funktionen der Grosshirnrinde. Gesammelte Mittheilung aus den Jahre 1877–80. Berlin: Hirschwald. [English translation: On the functions of the cortex, third Mittheilung, pp. 28–53, in G von Bonin (1960) Some Papers on the Cerebral Cortex. Springfield, IL: Thomas.] | |
| Munk H (1882) Über die Stirnlappen des Grosshirns. Sitzungsberichte der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 36: 753–789. | |
| Munk H (1890) Of the visual area of the cerebral cortex, and its relation to eye movements [transl. FW Mott]. Brain 13: 45–67. | |
| book Clarke E and Jacyna LS (1987) Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscience Concepts. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. | |
| book Clarke E and O'Malley CD (eds) (1968) The Human Brain and Spinal Cord. A Historical Study Illustrated by Writings from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. | |
| book Finger S (1994) Origins of Neuroscience. A History of Explorations into Brain Function. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| Klüver H (1936) An analysis of the effects of the removal of the occipital lobes in monkeys. Psychology 2: 49–61. | |
| book Marshall LH and Magoun HW (1998) Discoveries in the Human Brain. Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure and Function. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. | |
| book Polyak S (1957) The Vertebrate Visual System, Klüver H (ed.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Young RM (1990) Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century. Cerebral Localization and its Biological Context from Gall to Ferrier. New York: Oxford University Press. [Reprint with new preface. Originally published by Clarendon Press, 1970.] | |
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