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Brain 2005 128(3):449-450; doi:10.1093/brain/awh435
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Alastair Compston

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The brain's record of auditory and visual experience. A final summary and discussion. By Wilder Penfield and Phanor Perot. Brain 1963: 86; 595–696.

The subtitle of Wilder Penfield's paper, written at the age of 72 years, suggests, like the closing bars of Götterdämmerung, the conclusion to a monumental work of outstanding originality but, in Penfield's case, born not out of Teutonic mythology but from experimental neurology. Penfield had dedicated his first classic monograph, written with Theodore Erickson (Epilepsy and Cerebral Localisation, 1941) to John Hughlings Jackson and Charles Sherrington. Later, he gave the fifth Sherrington Lecture in the University of Liverpool (1958). The introduction to this final summary of his life's work, based in part on the Lister Oration (1961) and the Hughlings Jackson Lecture (Montreal, 1961) quotes Jackson: ‘he who is faithfully analysing many different cases . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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