EU-funded research examined the role of an iconic picture of brain functions in the process of building scientific consensus on cognition in the early Renaissance. The image in question came into use in the 13th century, was preferred over other visual representations in the 15th century, and still featured in scholarly books as late as the 17th century.
This image is regarded as having had great epistemological value in the process of disclosing and interpreting cognition in Europe. Rather than focusing on how consensus has affected scholarly images, the project HEADLINES (Headlines. A historical study of the iconic transverse section of the head and the process of building a scientific consensus about the mind (1400-1550)) followed a different epistemological approach to learn more about the history of educational knowledge. It investigated how the visual paradigm affected research premises.
Further details: The impact of a scholarly image on scientific consensus