Triarhou Lazaros Constantinos, Vivas Ana B
Economo-Koskinas Wing for Integrative and Evolutionary Neuroscience,University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Avenue,Bldg. Z-312,Thessaloniki, GR 54006, Greece.
Perspect Biol Med. 2009 Winter;52(1):80-9. doi: 10.1353/pbm.0.0069.
In 1902, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), the father of modern neuroscience and a 1906 Nobel laureate, contributed a preface to a book of poems by his fellow countryman, Spanish poet and dramatist Marcos Zapata (1844-1914). In that uncustomary-for his neuroscience followers-essay, Cajal unfolds his ideas on the literary genres of drama and comedy in relation to the workings of the human mind and sentiments. The same text was reissued almost half a century later in Spain and in Argentina under the title The Psychology of Artists. We present an English version of Cajal's essay, which may be of interest to both humanists and biologists, and which further denotes the celebrated neuroanatomist's attempt at understanding the mystery of the human mind.
1902年，现代神经科学之父、1906年诺贝尔奖获得者圣地亚哥·拉蒙·卡哈尔（1852 - 1934）为同胞、西班牙诗人兼剧作家马科斯·萨帕塔（1844 - 1914）的一本诗集作序。在这篇与其神经科学追随者们的风格不同寻常的文章中，卡哈尔阐述了他关于戏剧和喜剧文学体裁与人类思维及情感运作关系的观点。同一篇文章在近半个世纪后于西班牙和阿根廷以《艺术家的心理学》为题再版。我们呈现卡哈尔这篇文章的英文版本，它可能会引起人文主义者和生物学家的兴趣，并且进一步表明这位著名神经解剖学家试图理解人类思维奥秘的努力。
