Re the blog article cited by Chris Green:
http://www.dictionaryofneurology.com/2012/01/dogmas-in-neuroscience-and-further.html
ever wonder where we got the idea that humans
have about 100 billion neurons?.
Thanks Chris, I never knew that. :-)
From the article:
Sweeping histories, grand
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:03:46 -0800, Christopher D. Green wrote:
While we like to ponder the origin of psychological fallacies (like
using only 10% of our brains), there are many others that we probably
continue to espouse, but do not recognize.
Are you saying that the assertion that are 100
Then again, perhaps this is much ado about nothing. Consider
the following case that was described in the journal The Lancet
and imagine how many neurons are involved here?
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2807%2961127-1/fulltext
I love this short article
Just a brief update. I believe that when I took physiological psych
circa 1973 we used Richard Thompson's 1967 Foundations of
Physiological Psychology which turns out be available in
snippet view on books.google.com. On page 1, Thompson
says that there are 12 billion nerve cells in the brain.
