The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)James, William
Philosophy
The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)
James, William
Psychology
[22] H. Munk: Functionen der Grosshirnrinde (Berlin, 1881), pp. 36-40.
Ferrier: Functions, etc., 2d ed., chap, ix, pt. i. Brown and Schaefer,
Philos. Transactions, vol. 179, p. 321. Luciani u. Seppili, op. cit.
pp. 131-138. Lannegrace found traces of sight with both occipital lobes
destroyed, and in one monkey even when angular gyri and occipital lobes
were destroyed altogether. His paper is in the Archives de Médecine
Expérimentale for January and March, 1889. I only know it from the
abstract in the Neurologisches Centralblatt, 1889, pp. 108-420. The
reporter doubts the evidence of vision in the monkey. It appears to
have consisted in avoiding obstacles and in emotional disturbance in
the presence of men.
[23] Localization of Cerebral Disease (1878), pp. 117-8.
[24] For cases see Flechsig: Die Leitungsbahnen in Gehirn u. Rückenmark
(Leipzig, 1876), pp. 112, 272; Exner's Untersuchungen, etc., p. 83;
Ferrier's Localization, etc., p. 11; François-Franck's Cerveau Moteur,
p. 63, note.
[25] E. C. Seguin: Hemianopsia of Cerebral Origin, in Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. xiii, p. 30. Nothnagel und Naunyn:
Ueber die Localization der Gehirnkrankheiten (Wiesbaden, 1887), p. 16.
[26] Die Seelenblindheit, etc., p. 51 ff. The mental blindness was in
this woman's case moderate in degree.
[27] Archiv f. Psychiatrie, vol. 21, p. 222.
[28] Nothnagel (_loc. cit._ p. 22) says: "_Dies trifft aber nicht zu_."
He gives, however, no case in support of his opinion that double-sided
cortical lesion may make one stone-blind and yet not destroy one's
visual images; so that I do not know whether it is an observation of
fact or an _a priori_ assumption.
[29] In a case published by C. S. Freund: Archiv f. Psychiatrie,
vol. xx, the occipital lobes were injured, but their cortex was not
destroyed, on both sides. There was still vision. Cf. pp. 291-5.
[30] I say 'need,' for I do not of course deny the _possible_
coexistence of the two symptoms. Many a brain-lesion might block
optical associations and at the same time impair optical imagination,
without entirely stopping vision. Such a case seems to have been the
remarkable one from Charcot which I shall give rather fully in the
chapter on Imagination.
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