Jean Pierre Flourens (1 Jan 1794 Jahr – 1 Jan 1867 Jahr)

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French Physiologist and Surgeon

-Directly attacked phrenology--"Phrenology's worst enemy"

-Reduced the doctrine to two main points:
1) The mind is centered in the brain
2) The mind is composed of numerous faculties, each located in a specific brain area

-Practiced ablation method

-Discovered that the cerebral cortex operates as a whole

-Discovered that the cerebellum controls motor function (easily disproving the phrenologist theory that it controls sexual behavior and acts as the center of the "amativeness" function)

-Argued against any degree of localization in the cortex

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