Abstract
The problem of localization of function is the oldest in neurology and physiological psychology. The classical approach to the problem has been to study the effects that the lesions of the nervous system have on behavior and to determine the psychological functions or behaviors, which are subserved by different structures of the nervous system. Such an approach would reveal the functional organization of the nervous system of normal organisms. The classical approach has made contributions in the study of aphasia. Success at describing the functional organization of the normal nervous system has been elusive. This approach has several methodological and theoretical problems. Most neurologists and physiological psychologists regarded the idea that the lesion or classical approach can be used to reveal the structural basis of normal behaviors as an article of faith, as an axiom, rather than as a hypothesis that should itself be tested. When no techniques are available to monitor the activity of different brain structures in normal humans, this attitude persists among many neurologists despite the fact that adequate behavioral and electrophysiological techniques have been developed to test brain functions in normal humans.
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