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HEINRICH KLUVER
Pages 288-305

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From page 289...
... elates. coining rigorous experimental methods with a phenomenological spirit of investigation, he became one of the foremost experimental psychologists of his time en c!
From page 290...
... the University of Berlin en c! then the University of Hamburg where, in 1920 as a graduate student, he spent the next three years working with one of the fathers of Gestalt psychology, Max Wertheimer.
From page 291...
... by Paul Bucy, another member en c! later to be Heinrich Kluver's most notable collaborator, "Even in this constellation of brilliant stars, Heinrich Kluver shone".)
From page 292...
... can be tracer! back to his earlier publications on eidetic visual phenomena, for mescal visions were thought to resemble visual eidetic imagery (192S, 2~.
From page 293...
... ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND OCCIPITAL LOBE LESIONS After his self-experimentations with mescal, he began to stucly the behavioral effects of mescal on the non-human primate. For Kluver the use of non-human primates en c!
From page 294...
... TEMPORAL LOBE LESIONS AND THE KLUVER-BUCY SYNDROME With Paul Bucy, Kluver would extend the scope of his ablation studies to inclucle lesions of the temporal lobes. The temporal lobe experiments of Kluver en c!
From page 295...
... If surgical removal of the uncal region could abolish the oral behaviors produced by mescaline administration in monkeys, a strong case could be made regarding the underlying neuroanatomical site at which mescaline exerted its effect. In collaboration with Paul Bucy, the first unsuccessful attempts to identify the locus of action of mescal in monkeys began with dissections of the trigeminal and facial nerves.
From page 296...
... . it may come as a surprise that the discovery of the syndrome of bilateral destruction of the temporal lobes came by chance and without prior planning but not by accident.
From page 297...
... the response lay an essential psychological process, namely the ability to unclerstanc! what is perceivecI.
From page 298...
... an entirely new set of laboratory techniques. Using fluorescence spectral analysis, he macle the important discovery that the white matter in brains of warm-blooclec!
From page 299...
... Kluver left little in the form of autobio graphical material his sparing comments inextricably associatec! with documents pertaining to his scientific work.
From page 300...
... Avery distinguished service professor of biological psychology, University of Chicago, Division of Biological Sciences 1963 Sewell L Avery distinguished service professor emeritus, University of Chicago, Division of Biological ~ ~clences ACADEMIES' HONORS' AND AWARDS 1954 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1957 National Academy of Sciences
From page 301...
... Hamilton Award, American Psychopathological Association 1964 Gold Key Award, Medical Alumn of Chicago 1965 Honorary M.D., University of Basel 1965 Gold Medal Award, American Psychological Foundation 1966 Honorary member, American Neurological Association, International Brain Research Organization, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Society of Biological Psychiatry 1969 Distinguished Achievement Award, Modern Medicine 1969 Gold Medal Award, Eastern Psychiatric Research Association 1969 Honorary Ph.D., University of Hamburg 1971 Honorary M.D., University of Kiel 1975 Honorary member, Society of Biological Psychiatry 11 301 Association, University NOTES 1.
From page 302...
... and his students showed a doubledissociation between "psychic blindness" produced by the cortical resection of the temporal lobes due to a flattening of generalization gradients and disabilities on the Kluver equivalence task, which is disturbed by resections of the amygdala.
From page 303...
... 1:1-4. Use of vacuum tube amplification in establishing differential motor reactions 7.
From page 304...
... Bucy. "Psychic blindness" and other symptoms following bilateral temporal lobectomy in rhesus monkeys.
From page 305...
... 103:151-251. 1958 "The temporal lobe syndrome" produced by bilateral ablations.


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