The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)James, William
Philosophy
The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)
James, William
Psychology
In a later chapter we shall again return to these differences in
the effectiveness of the sensory spheres in different individuals.
Meanwhile few things show more beautifully than the history of our
knowledge of aphasia how the sagacity and patience of many banded
workers are in time certain to analyze the darkest confusion into an
orderly display.[41] There is no 'centre of Speech' in the brain any
more than there is a faculty of Speech in the mind. The entire brain,
more or less, is at work in a man who uses language. The subjoined
diagram, from Boss, shows the four parts most critically concerned,
and, in the light of our text, needs no farther explanation (see Fig.
18).
[Illustration: FIG. 18.]
_Smell._
Everything conspires to point to the median descending part of the
temporal lobes as being the organs of smell. Even Ferrier and Munk
agree on the hippocampal gyrus, though Ferrier restricts olfaction, as
Munk does not, to the lobule or uncinate process of the convolution,
reserving the rest of it for touch. Anatomy and pathology also point to
the hippocampal gyrus; but as the matter is less interesting from the
point of view of human psychology than were sight and hearing, I will
say no more, but simply add Luciani and Seppili's diagram of the dog's
smell-centre.[42] Of
_Taste_
we know little that is definite. What little there is points to the
lower temporal regions again. Consult Ferrier as below.
[Illustration: FIG. 19.--Luciani's Olfactory Region in the Dog.]
_Touch._
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