Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1912 — Mental Processes In the Brain. [ARTICLE]

Mental Processes In the Brain.

Wp have no facts which at present will enable us to locate the mental processes in the brain any better than they were located fifty years ago. That the mental processes may be due to cerebral activities we may believe, but with what anatomical elements the Individual mental processes may be connected we do not know. Notwithstanding our ignorance, it would appear best and most scientific that we should not adhere to any of the phrenological systems, however scientific they may appear to be on the surface. We should be willing to stand with Brodmann, believing that mind Is a function or an attribute of the brain as a whole, or is a concomitant of cerebral operations, but I at least am unwilling to stand with the histological localizatlonlsts bn the ground of a special mental process for special cerebral areas or for special cerebral cell groups.—Shepherd Ivory Franz, in Science.