Paul Eling
Biographic Data
| ID | 554637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Eling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Eling |
| SIGNATURE | ELING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9509-1221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The quest for objectivity and measurements in phrenology’s “bumpy” history
Phrenology is based on correlating character traits with visible or palpable cranial bumps (or depressions) thought to reflect underlying brain areas differing in size and levels of activity. Franz Joseph Gall, who introduced the doctrine during the 1790s, relied heavily on seeing and feeling skulls when he formulated his theory, as did Johann Spurzheim, who served as his assistant until 1813 and then set forth on his own. But Peter Mark Roget, a…
Franz Joseph Gall on God and religion
Franz Joseph Gall's (1758-1828) doctrine of many faculties of mind with corresponding cortical organs led him to be accused of materialism, fatalism, and even atheism. Yet little has been written about the specific charges he felt forced to respond to in Vienna, while visiting the German States, or in Paris, where he published his books. This article examines these accusations and Gall's responses. It also looks at what Gall wrote about a cortica…
Clinical neuropsychology
Franz Joseph Gall's non-cortical faculties and their organs
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) is remembered for his claims that behavior results from a large number of independent mental faculties, and that these faculties are associated with cortical organs. Apart from the 26 faculties he localized in the cerebrum, he also recognized one faculty (reproductive drive) in the cerebellum. This picture, however, is based on Gall's presentations in his well-known later works, his four volume Anatomie et Physiologi…
Gall and phrenology
Joseph Gall, as he was called prior to his trip to Paris (Finger and Eling 2019), was born in 1758 in the small town of Tiefenbronn, near the border of Germany's Schwarzwald (Black Forest).After primary school, although pressured to become a priest, he went to Strasbourg to study medicine.In 1785, he completed his medical education in Vienna and began a private practice catering to the well-to-do in the Austrian capital.But when not seeing patien…
Neurolinguistics, History of
Reader in the History of Aphasia
Franz Joseph Gall on God and religion
Franz Joseph Gall's (1758-1828) doctrine of many faculties of mind with corresponding cortical organs led him to be accused of materialism, fatalism, and even atheism. Yet little has been written about the specific charges he felt forced to respond to in Vienna, while visiting the German States, or in Paris, where he published his books. This article examines these accusations and Gall's responses. It also looks at what Gall wrote about a cortica…
Gall and phrenology
Joseph Gall, as he was called prior to his trip to Paris (Finger and Eling 2019), was born in 1758 in the small town of Tiefenbronn, near the border of Germany's Schwarzwald (Black Forest).After primary school, although pressured to become a priest, he went to Strasbourg to study medicine.In 1785, he completed his medical education in Vienna and began a private practice catering to the well-to-do in the Austrian capital.But when not seeing patien…
Reader in the History of Aphasia
Neurolinguistics, History of
Gall and phrenology
Joseph Gall, as he was called prior to his trip to Paris (Finger and Eling 2019), was born in 1758 in the small town of Tiefenbronn, near the border of Germany's Schwarzwald (Black Forest).After primary school, although pressured to become a priest, he went to Strasbourg to study medicine.In 1785, he completed his medical education in Vienna and began a private practice catering to the well-to-do in the Austrian capital.But when not seeing patien…
Franz Joseph Gall's non-cortical faculties and their organs
Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) is remembered for his claims that behavior results from a large number of independent mental faculties, and that these faculties are associated with cortical organs. Apart from the 26 faculties he localized in the cerebrum, he also recognized one faculty (reproductive drive) in the cerebellum. This picture, however, is based on Gall's presentations in his well-known later works, his four volume Anatomie et Physiologi…
Clinical neuropsychology
The quest for objectivity and measurements in phrenology’s “bumpy” history
Phrenology is based on correlating character traits with visible or palpable cranial bumps (or depressions) thought to reflect underlying brain areas differing in size and levels of activity. Franz Joseph Gall, who introduced the doctrine during the 1790s, relied heavily on seeing and feeling skulls when he formulated his theory, as did Johann Spurzheim, who served as his assistant until 1813 and then set forth on his own. But Peter Mark Roget, a…
Franz Joseph Gall on God and religion
Franz Joseph Gall's (1758-1828) doctrine of many faculties of mind with corresponding cortical organs led him to be accused of materialism, fatalism, and even atheism. Yet little has been written about the specific charges he felt forced to respond to in Vienna, while visiting the German States, or in Paris, where he published his books. This article examines these accusations and Gall's responses. It also looks at what Gall wrote about a cortica…
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