Editing Wilhelm Wundt (section)

=== Neuropsychology ===
Wundt contributed to the state of [[neuropsychology]] as it existed at the time in three ways: through his criticism of the theory of localisation (then widespread in [[neurology]]), through his demand for research hypotheses founded on both neurological and psychological thinking, and through his neuropsychological concept of an apperception centre in the [[frontal cortex]]. Wundt considered [[attention]] and the control of attention an excellent example of the desirable combination of experimental psychological and neurophysiological research. Wundt called for experimentation to localise the higher central nervous functions to be based on clear, psychologically based research hypotheses because the questions could not be rendered precisely enough on the anatomical and physiological levels alone.
 [[File:Apperzeptionszentrum (Wundt, Grundzüge, 1903, 5th ed. Vol. 1, p. 324).jpg|thumb|{{center|(Wundt, ''Grundzüge'', 1903, 5th ed. Vol. 1, p. 324.)}}]]
Wundt based his central theory of apperception on neuropsychological modelling (from the 3rd edition of the ''Grundzüge'' onwards). According to this, the hypothetical apperception centre in the frontal cerebral cortex that he described could interconnect sensory, motor, autonomic, cognitive, emotional and motivational process components<ref>Ziche: Neuroscience in its context, 1999.</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Fahrenberg: Wundts Neuropsychologie, 2015b.</ref> Wundt thus provided the guiding principle of a primarily psychologically oriented research programme on the highest integrative processes. He is therefore a forerunner of current research on cognitive and emotional [[executive functions]] in the prefrontal cerebral cortex, and on hypothetical ''multimodal convergence zones'' in the network of cortical and limbic functions. This concept of an interdisciplinary [[neuroscience]] is now taken for granted, but Wundt's contribution towards this development has almost been forgotten. [[Charles Scott Sherrington|C.S. Sherrington]] repeatedly quotes Wundt's research on the physiology of the [[reflexes]] in his textbook,<ref>Ch. S. Sherrington: The integrative Action of the Nervous System. Henry Frowde, London 1911.</ref> but not Wundt's neuropsychological concepts.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>