Abstract
PHYSIOLOGY has been denned as the outcome of a curiosity about ourselves. Such curiosity reaches its peak in the attempt to discover what material events in the brain accompany, and might be responsible for, the conscious processes of feeling and thought. The brain–mind relation is the noman's-land on which the theologian, the psychologist and the physiologist meet face to face. The problem is age-old, and no immediate solution is in sight. The physiological approach has, however, advanced somewhat in recent years. This has been chiefly due to the work of Prof. E. D. Adrian at Cambridge, who summarized the present position in his Waynflete Lectures at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1946, which are now available.
The Physical Background of Perception
By E. D. Adrian. (Being the Waynflete Lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, in Hilary Term 1946.) Pp. viii + 95. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1947.) 10s. net.
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TROWELL, O. Brain and Mind. Nature 161, 498–499 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161498a0
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