Abstract: International audience; In the human body, the brain constitutes a particular organ that is the object of various conceptions and scientific measurements. This article proposes approaching some of these conceptions in the prism of research work on advanced age and longevity. In being based on an analysis of the literature in medicine, neuropsychology, biology and experimental psychology, the article shows that the scientific conceptions of the brain are at once marked by the period but above all by the theoretical approach and the goal of the r...
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