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On The Localisation Of Movements In The Brain by John Hughlings Jackson. This work presents a pioneering account of how movements and impressions are represented in the cerebral hemispheres, arguing for a sensori-motor substrate underlying mentation rather than a purely mental or abstract faculty. Jackson discusses how paralysis and convulsions yield clues to the anatomical localization of movements, and how observations of disease, alongside experimental results from Hitzig and Ferrier, can map the brain’s motor and sensory functions. He articulates the Principle of Compensation (the idea that lost functions can be restored or redistributed through surrounding areas) and the related concept of Dissolution (the opposite process in disease). The text also elaborates the dual nature of mental operations, the so-called organ of mind, and the distinction between psychological states and their physical substrata. Throughout, he cites the substrata of words, visual ideas, and the coordination of sensori-motor processes, arguing that anatomy and physiology, not psychology alone, must ground our understanding of brain function. The work situates itself within debates on mind-body relations, citing thinkers such as Bain and Spencer, and it foreshadows the localizationist approach that would shape neurology.
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