Magda Arnold, Thomist neuroscientist 🧠

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• Arnold, Magda B. Memory and the Brain. 2^nd ed. Psychology Press, 2013. DOI: 10.4324/9780203781197.

is an excellent 📖 on neuroscience 🧠. Arnold was a Thomist psychologist. Chapters 9 & 10 are congenial to Aristotle's and St. Thomas Aquinas's psychology, which she calls the "perennial philosophy", and to his On Memory and Recollection.

Cornelius, Randolph R. "Magda Arnold's Thomistic Theory of Emotion, the Self-Ideal, and the Moral Dimension of Appraisal." Cognition and Emotion 20, no. 7 (2006): 976–1000. DOI: 10.1080/02699930600616411:

By summer's end, Arnold reports that she had read Aquinas' De Anima and parts of Summa Theologica (presumably, the ''Treatise on Human Acts'', and at least some of the ''Treatise on Man''). ''To this day'', she says of De Anima, ''I have not found anything to surpass it. It fits modern research findings and makes them intelligible in a way I have found nowhere else'' (Arnold [autobiography], n.d., p. 13).