Experiments on the brain of monkeys.—No. I

Abstract

The facts recorded in this paper are the results obtained by electrical stimulation of the brain of monkeys, after the method described by the author in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports, vol. iii. 1873. They formed part of a paper “On the Localization of Function in the Brain,” read before the Royal Society on March 5, 1874. This memoir also contained the results of other experiments on the brain of monkeys, chiefly relating to the effects of localized lesions of several parts of the hemispheres, with a view to determine the significance, as regards sensation and motion, of the phenomena caused by electrical irritation.