The discipline of phrenology was founded by
A)Broca and Wernicke.
B)Fritsch and Hitzig.
C)Ramón y Cajal and Sherrington.
D)Gall and Spurzheim.

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Phrenology was founded by Franz Joseph Gall and his colleague Johann Spurzheim in the late 18th century. They believed that each mental faculty was localized in a specific area of the brain and could be measured by the shape and size of the bumps on a person's skull. However, this idea was later discredited and is now considered a pseudoscience.

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