Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (13 April 1794 – 6 December 1867), father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain...

Third Republic. He was son of the biologist Jean Pierre Flourens, and the younger brother of Gustave Flourens, a general of the Paris Commune. He was auditor...

Flourens may refer to: Flourens, Haute-Garonne, a commune of France, in the Haute-Garonne département Émile Flourens (1841–1920), French revolutionary...

elder brother of Émile Flourens, who became minister of foreign affairs under the Third Republic. At 25 years of age Flourens undertook in 1863, on behalf...

phrenology, most of which were done with ablation techniques. Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens demonstrated through ablation that the cerebrum and cerebellum accomplish...

Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), a French physiologist and pioneer in anesthesia Jean-Pierre Foucault (b. 1947), a French television host Jean-Pierre Gorin...

aircraft slowly loses altitude until impact with the ground. Jean Pierre Flourens, by destroying the horizontal semicircular canal of pigeons, noted...

parietal lobe. Phrenology's practice was debunked scientifically by Pierre Flourens in the 19th century. He destroyed parts of pigeons' and dogs' brains...

from the phrenology of Franz Joseph Gall – and their opponents led by Pierre Flourens. Phrenologists believed that the human mind has a set of various mental...

by Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens, in which he demonstrated lesions to bird brains caused irreparable damage to vital functions. Flourens's methods, however...

the cerebral hemispheres of rabbits and monkeys. In the 1820s, Jean Pierre Flourens pioneered the experimental method of damaging specific parts of animal...

subsequently mated with a terrier and produced five pups. Marie Jean Pierre Flourens attempted his own crossbreeding experiments nearly a century later...

was accepted into Parisian intellectual salons. Physiologist Jean Pierre Flourens emerged as one of the sharpest critics of Gall's theories, testing...

principle that describes a cortical mechanism, first identified by Jean Pierre Flourens and later revisited by Karl Lashley in the 1950s. After performing...

respect to the brain was soon attacked, most notably by French anatomist Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), who conducted ablation studies (on chickens) which purported...

researchers such as Luigi Rolando[citation needed] (1773–1831) and Pierre Flourens[citation needed] (1794–1867), to study the brain localization of function...

John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1873) 1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867) 1802 – Leopold Fitzinger...

view, all areas of the brain participate in every mental function. Pierre Flourens, a French experimental psychologist, challenged the localizationist...

Cultural offices Preceded by Jean-François Cailhava Seat 29 Académie française 1813-1839 Succeeded by Jean Pierre Flourens...

subthalamic nucleus. Ablative brain surgery was first introduced by Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), a French physiologist. He removed different parts of the...

Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789) 1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794) 1868 – August Schleicher...

Nicolas Noël. The first biography of Labillardière was written by Jean Pierre Flourens, whose graveside eulogy of Labillardière was published in the Annales...

April – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, mathematician, soldier, and professor of[engineering (died 1847) 15 April – Jean Pierre Flourens, physiologist (died...

that damage to the cerebellum results in motor disturbances. Jean Pierre Flourens in the first half of the 19th century carried out detailed experimental...

roots receive sensory input (Bell–Magendie law). In the 1820s, Jean Pierre Flourens pioneered the experimental method of carrying out localized lesions...

Press. ISBN 978-0-262-56025-2. Pearce, J.M.S. (2009). "Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens (1794-1867) and cortical localization". European Neurology. 61 (5):...

man credited with the beginning concepts of field theory was Jean Pierre Flourens.[citation needed] Field theory is the concept that the brain acts as...

respiratory regulation and was later completed by the work of Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens (1794–1867). One of his most important discoveries was the demonstration...

Germain de Lacépède 1803–1832 Georges Cuvier 1832–1833 Pierre-Louis Dulong 1833–1868 Pierre Flourens 1868–1884 Jean-Baptiste Dumas 1884–1886 Jules Jamin...

throughout the brain. In parallel with this research, in 1815 Jean Pierre Flourens induced localized lesions of the brain in living animals to observe...