AbstractsPsychology

Historically, there have been two main approaches to the analysis of cerebral function. From one point of view, it has been maintained that different psychological attributes or functions reside in different parts of the cerebrum. In contrast to this, the position has been held by many that there is no such localization of function. It is now quite clear that many functions can be localized, in the sense that a loss of a limited region of cerebral tissue results in a qualitatively limited, or restricted, loss of function, and a loss of much cerebral tissue elsewhere in the brain does not produce the same loss.