Paper, 'On electrical excitation of the occipital lobe and adjacent parts of the monkey’s brain' by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
Reference number: PP/11/30
Date: 1888
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Sharpey-Schafer writes: 'The cortex of the occipital lobe has been explored electrically by Ferrier and by Luciani and Tamburini. In ten experiments upon monkeys Ferrier was unable to obtain any movements on stimulation of this part. Excitation of the angular gyrus produced conjugate deviation of both eyes to the opposite side, with sometimes an upward inclination when the anterior limb was stimulated, and a downward inclination when the electrodes were applied to the posterior limb.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Neuroscience
Received 13 February 1888. Read 1 March 1888.
A version of this paper was published in volume 43 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On electrical excitation of the occipital lobe and adjacent parts of the monkey’s brain'.
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- PP/11/30
- Earliest possible date
- 1888
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Paper, 'On electrical excitation of the occipital lobe and adjacent parts of the monkey’s brain' by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, 1888, PP/11/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_11_30/paper-on-electrical-excitation-of-the-occipital-lobe-and-adjacent-parts-of-the-monkeys-brain-by-edward-albert-sharpey-schafer, accessed on 15 May 2025
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Date: 31st December 1888
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0157
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 43, 1887-1888
1887-1888 Reference number: PP/11
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