1885 EBBINGHAUS, Hermann (1850 – 1909)
Über das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie.
Ebbinghaus conducted a series of experiments on memory and forgetting using himself as subject. Out of this came concepts such as the learning curve and the forgetting curve, and the serial position effect. Digital fa…
GMN 13153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15412
1903 BINET, Alfred (1857 – 1911)
L'Étude expérimentale de l'intelligence.
Once education was made mandatory for all French children from ages six to fourteen, it became necessary to determine which children might be considered retarded. To do so the question arose concerning what test shoul…
GMN 13067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15319
2015 SWANSON, Larry William (1945 – ); BOTA, Mihail; SPORNS, Olaf (1963 – )
Architecture of the cerebral cortical association connectome underlying cognition.
"Significance "Connections between cerebral cortex regions are known as association connections, and neural activity in the network formed by these connections is thought to generate cognition. Network analysis of mic…
GMN 12736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14982
2017 SWANSON, Larry William (1945 – ); SPORNS, Olaf (1963 – ); HAHN, Joel D.
Organizing principles for the cerebral cortex network of commissural and association connections.
"Significance "The cerebral cortex supports cognition and is a structure common to all mammals. The major cortical subdivisions (its gray matter regions) are connected by a complex network of axonal connections that i…
GMN 12737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14983
2018 SWANSON, Larry William (1945 – ); SPORNS, Olaf (1963 – ); HAHN, Joel D.; JEUB, Lucas G. S.; FORTUNATO, Santo
Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain).
"Significance "The right and left cerebral hemispheres (together forming the endbrain) support cognition and affect, and, structurally, each hemisphere consists of a cortical sheet and set of deep nuclei (often called…
GMN 12738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14984