Pioneering psychologist Margaret Floy Washburn was born 155 years ago today. Her book The Animal Mind was for decades THE textbook on comparative psychology, and her ideas about what the brain does when observing tasks were eerily prescient of what mirror neurons actually do! tinyurl.com/mwf6zvjv
Margaret Floy Washburn and the Motion of Thought.Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology (though not, as we learned from our time with Ladd-Franklin, the first to earn one), and was among the mo...tinyurl.com