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Functional specialization (brain)

In neuroscience, functional specialization is a theory which suggests that different areas in the brain are specialized for different functions.[1][2] It is opposed to the anti-localizationist theories and brain holism and equipotentialism.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Flourens, M. J. P. (1824) Recherces experimentales sur les propretes et les fonctions du systeme nerveux dans les animaux vertebres. Paris: J.B. Balliere.
  2. ^ Lashley, K. S. (1929) Brain mechanisms and intelligence. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
  3. ^ Tyler KL, Malessa R. The Goltz-Ferrier debates and the triumph of cerebral localizationalist theory. Neurology. 2000 Oct 10;55(7):1015-24. doi: 10.1212/wnl.55.7.1015. PMID 11061261.
  4. ^ Levelt, W. J. M. (2016). Localism versus holism. Historical origins of studying language in the brain. In R. Rubens, & M. Van Dijk (Eds.), Sartoniana vol. 29 (pp. 37-60). Ghent: Ghent University.
  5. ^ McCaffrey, Joseph B. (2023). Evolving Concepts of Functional Localization. Philosophy Compass 18 (5):e12914.

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