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FunctionBased on Jules Bernard Luys's research, this model was used by the Harvard Psychology Department for the teaching and study of the human brain anatomy.
Historical AttributesThis instrument is found in Hugo Münsterberg's 1893 Psychological Laboratory of Harvard University document. It is thus listed: "3. Natural sized clastic model, showing the nerve-fibres in one hemisphere, and the cerebral ganglion masses on the other. After Luys, by Auzoux, Paris. $56."
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Primary SourcesHugo Münsterberg's 1893 inventory of Harvard's Psychological Laboratory apparatus is located in Harvard University Archives HUF 715.93.72.
Related WorksJules Bernard Luys, Recherches sur le système cérébro-spinal, sa structure, ses fonctions et ses maladies (Paris: Baillière, 1865).