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The “locality assumption”: Lessons from history and neuroscience?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Jonathan K. Foster
Jonathan K. Foster
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdomfoster@psy.man.ac.uk www.psy.man.ac.uk
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Abstract

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This commentary seeks to place Farah's (1994) arguments in the historical context of ideas about mind-brain relationships. It further seeks to draw a conceptual parallel between the issues considered by Farah in her target article and questions which have concerned neuroscientists since the nineteenth century regarding the functional organization of the brain. Specific reference is made to the relationship between use of the concept of “locality” in cognitive neuropsychology and use of the concept of “localization” in neuroscience.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 518 - 519
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press