From phrenology to scientific theory

Pre-scientific approaches

Modularity of mind

physiology, psychophysics and scientific psychology

Associationism

Sensoristic

Automistic

Associative

Law of contiguity

long-term potentiation

Hebb's law

Connectionosm

horizontal
faculties

vertical
faculties

Phrenology

Physiognomy

Mesmerism

Mental healing

Spiritualism

Flourens vs Gall

Broca's discovery

Wernicke's language model

Speed of nerve impulses

speed of mental processes

Donders substraction method

Sternberg's additive-factors method

Psychophysics

Weber

Fechner

Weber's law

Input systems are modules

faces

central systems

places

words

bodies

thoughts of others