The modeling work of cognitive neuroscientists such as Francisco Varela and Walter Freeman seeks to explain embodied and situated cognition in terms of dynamical systems theory and neurophenomenology, but rejects the idea that the brain uses representations to do so (a position also espoused by Gerhard Werner).
Walter Jackson Freeman III, American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher
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Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician who performed nearly 3500 lobotomies
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The 1940s was the decade when psychosurgery was most popular, largely due to the efforts of American neurologist Walter Freeman; its use has been declining since then.
Transorbital leucotomy (transorbital lobotomy in the US) was a technique invented by Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti and taken up by American neurologist Walter Freeman, with whose name it is particularly associated.
James W. Watts, American neurosurgeon and early pioneer of lobotomy; colleague of Walter Freeman