Author Question: Although phrenology is mostly wrong, what did phrenologists get right about the nervous system? ... (Read 29 times)

Kikoku · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Although phrenology is mostly wrong, what did phrenologists get right about the nervous system?

a. The ventricles play a major role in the transmission of messages in the brain.
b. Sensation and movement have separate pathways.
c. Neurons communicate using electrical signals.
d. Some functions can be localized in the brain.

Question 2

Gall and Spurzheim are responsible for

a. the Neuron Doctrine.
b. establishing the electrical nature of neural communication.
c. demonstrating that sensory and motor information uses separate pathways.
d. proposing the science of phrenology.