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The attempt to discover the functions of various parts of the body, especially the clearly distinguishable organs, has a long history. Children very soon learn that their eyes are necessary for seeing, and a little later that their ears provide hearing, by performing such simple experiments as shutting the eyes and blocking the ears, and noting the effects. In the case of organs such as the heart, the matter is not quite so simple, which may account for some of the bizarre ideas associated with primitive medicine. At various times the heart, stomach, and liver have been regarded as the seat of the soul and of thought, while the brain was given the cryogenic function, by Aristotle, of cooling the blood.
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Gregory, R.L. (1962). The Logic of the Localization of Function in the Central Nervous System. In: Bernard, E.E., Kare, M.R. (eds) Biological Prototypes and Synthetic Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1716-6_10
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