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@article{ART001852507},
author={Seung-Chol Shin},
title={Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2014},
volume={40},
pages={143-184}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seung-Chol Shin
TI - Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2014
VL - 40
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 143
EP - 184
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This paper examines the activity of image in the course of modernization of brain research. The scientific investigation about the relation between the mind and the material was raging in the early years of the 19th century. The neurophysiologist, like Samuel Thomas Soemmerring and Franz Joseph Gall, dissected the brain and made a sketches to study the mechanism of mental activity. The image became a crucial factor for their investigation. Soemmerring wanted to make a realistic cross section of brain, and this morphological image gave him a visual intuition about mental activity. He believed that he found sensorium commune in his sketch, and he could take a physiological approach to mind. But his transcendental physiology was modified with the aid of Immanuel Kant. Kant advised him to focus on the discovery of location of Seelenorgan ―not Seele― and this transition made preparations for the beginning of phrenology, which was initiated by Franz Joseph Gall. Gall preferred to functional image, traced nerve fibers into cerebral cortex, and insisted the localization of brain function on that surface. In particular he classified 27 human tendencies ―based on the cranial form― because he regarded the skull as an image or trace which bears the form of cortex. The neural image finds its activity space in the fissure between mind and brain, whose mechanism and relation can not be described yet. The image is not a simple copy of reality. As Soemmerring and Gall initiated respectively morphology and phrenology with their sketch, the cerebral image makes the invisible visible with a particular purpose, and rearranges the brain in certain orders. That image is related to different discourses and builds a network with them. The cerebral image which forms a knowledge in this network, presents a brain as a epistemic object, and takes a critical part of the investigation about the brain and mental activity.
KW - Samuel Thomas Soemmerring;Franz Joseph Gall;Organology;Localization;Transcendental Physiology;Sketch Act;Sichtbarmachung;Sensorium Commune;Craniology
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Seung-Chol Shin. (2014). Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 40, 143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin. 2014, "Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.40, pp.143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin "Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 40 pp.143-184 (2014) : 143.

Seung-Chol Shin. Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology. 2014; 40 143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin. "Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 40(2014) : 143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin. Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 40, 143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin. Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2014; 40 143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin. Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology. 2014; 40 143-184.

Seung-Chol Shin. "Brain and Representation : Visual Perception in the Morphology and Phrenology" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 40(2014) : 143-184.