A history of women in psychology and neuroscience : exploring the trailblazers of STEM
DeBakcsy, Dale2024
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Since virtually its first moments as an academic science, women have played a major role in the development of psychology, gaining from the outset research opportunities and academic positions that had been denied them for centuries in other branches of scientific investigation. This book tells the story of 267 women whose work opened new doors in humanity's ongoing attempt to learn about its own nature, from Christine Ladd Franklin's late 19th century studies of how the brain perceives colour to Virginia Johnson's pioneering studies of the human sexual response, and Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke's early association of neurological conditions with their underlying brain regions to May-Britt Moser's Nobel-winning discovery a century later of the grid cells that allow us to mentally model our surroundings.
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Author:
DeBakcsy, Dale, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399032353 (hbk)
Dewey class:
150.9252150.925
LC class:
BF109.A1
Language:
English
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BRN:
3993107
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