Giovanni Aldini, sobrinho de
Luigi Galvani, tambem fisico italiano, praticou algumas pesquisas com a pilha voltaica na estimulacao cerebral de cadaveres.
In 1791,
Luigi Galvani published his work describing the stimulation of the inner crural nerves of a frog with an electrostatically charged object, causing the leg muscles to contract.
Galvanic skin response is named after the Italian physician and physicist
Luigi Galvani, who in the late eighteenth century first began generating muscle movements in frogs and other animals via electric current ("animal electricity," he called it, and humans were not far behind in the experiments of his acolytes, such as his nephew Giovanni Aldini).
In an 1828 manuscript, "On the Passions," Coleridge demonstrated his knowledge of German idealism and physiology as well as Humphrey Davy's work on electricity and
Luigi Galvani's and Allesandro Volta's work on electricity and magnetism as he develops a physiological psychology which "gives primacy to mind [i.e., spirit] and makes the body its expression" (43).