Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior: The Hixon Symposium

Abstract

OW THE BR\I> functions has alwas been a great puzzle to both laymen and experts. It is interesting, therefore, to see what a group of 19 outstanding scientists had to say on this subject when they met at the California Institute of Technology in the fall of 1948. These men. who came from several different disciplines (mathematics. chemistry, physiology, neurology. psychology and psychiatry1 shared their research findings and theoretical formulations d u r i n g t h e week of this symposium. This book contains six of the seven papers which were presented there, and records of the discussions, which have been ably edited by Lloyd Jeffress, who v a s Hixon Visiting Professor here in 1947-48.