Phrenology plugin for Brainstorm

Authors: Raymundo Cassani, François Tadel, Sylvain Baillet

The scientific and technological advances of the last decade in the fields of neurosicence, AI and ESP have lead the way to the resurgence of phrenology in the scientific community. As such we have developed the Phrenology plugin for Brainstorm.



In the past, a personality evaluation through phrenology was only possible with the intervention of an expert to observe and feel enlargements and indentations in the skull caused by the brain organs. The Phrenology plugin for Brainstorm performs an accurate and registration between MRI data and latest brain organs charts, giving as result not only the automated evaluation of personality, but also the assessment of character traits such as: sensor of color, love of approbation, philoprogenitiveness, etc. This plugin was developed in collaboration with the Edinburgh Phrenological Society.

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Additional documentation

• "Plaster phrenological bust, London, 1821" (https://skfb.ly/6WTAB) by Science Museum Group is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

• Cartoon: Phrenology, 1865. 'A hint to phrenologists; or, 'September 20, 1878. Cartoon about phrenology and Wall Street panics, published in Harper's Weekly. Woodcut, 1865.