ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores some of the pivotal constellations and the conjunctions of how the brain moved to center stage of the research landscape for more than merely addressing neuropsychiatric conditions. As an archeology of the electric brain, the book focuses on the local settings in which the new research technology emerged. It identifies the cultural resources and technological models on which this research drew and traces the wider resonances the new findings inspired in terms of the theorizing about mind and brain. If the English translation helps to put more recent developments into historical perspective, more has been achieved than the author can hope for. Learning and memory perfected the system but did not change the underlying structure.
