RAMONYCAJAL,SANTIAGO AND THE CROONIAN-LECTURE, MARCH 1894

Authors
JONES EG
Citation
Eg. Jones, RAMONYCAJAL,SANTIAGO AND THE CROONIAN-LECTURE, MARCH 1894, Trends in neurosciences, 17(5), 1994, pp. 190-192
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
Trends in neurosciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
01662236
Volume
17
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
190 - 192
Database
ISI
SICI code
0166-2236(1994)17:5<190:RATCM1>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
One hundred years ago, the Spanish scientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal de livered the Croonian lecture (La fine structure des centres nerveux) o f the Royal Society of London in which he not only set forth the conne ctionist approach to central neural processing, but also proposed mech anisms of functional nervous plasticity that were forerunners of recen t views.