ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Neurology, Cognitive Revolution, Dream Interpretation
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These, as you might expect, these movements didn"t get along very well. Being enlightened is seldom synonymous with being a very devout protestant. (i said seldom, you can sit back down) Also: napoleon defeated a coalition around the austrians in the south (austro-hungarian. Empire) and then a coalition around the prussians in the north (germany). The defeat by the french particularly upset the prussians, who decided it was high time to modernize their country: the school system was reorganized, and a new university model was installed (willing to fu*k with science now) Wundt and the first laboratory of experimental psychology. Wilhelm wundt (1832 1920) was born to an intellectual family. He was an unmotivated and rather poor student in secondary school but pulled himself together when he studied medicine and he began to excel. After his phd he obtained an assistantship with hermann von helmholtz, the man who had started to measure the speed of signal transmission in nerves.
