Practice mode Psychology

Who is credited with first inferring the existence of synapses?

Correct answer B. Charles Sherrington

Explanation

Charles Sherrington deduced from reflex timing that there must be a junction between neurons and coined the term synapse in 1897, later sharing a Nobel Prize.

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