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The Diagram Makers and Their Critics

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In the late nineteenth century, the theory of localization was strongly supported by experimental evidence from both electrocortical stimulation and cytoarchitectonics (for details, see Chaps. 5 and 6, respectively). Fritsch and Hitzig had demonstrated in 1870 that cortical stimulation at specific sites of the frontal lobe of a dog elicited contralateral muscular reactions, whereas stimulation of other regions did not result in any noticeable response [1]. Brodmann had parcellated the cortex of the human brain on the basis of histological differences in cell population and neuronal architecture and came up with 43 different areas in his now famous cytoarchitectonical brain maps [2].

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Notes

  1. 1.

    An example of a more recent box-and-arrow model is shown in Fig. 4.8.

  2. 2.

    Quotation taken from Greenberg (1995) [19]

  3. 3.

    At that time these specialities had not been ‘born’ and were only gradually evolving; Freud called himself a ‘lecturer on neuropathology’ on the title page of his book [19].

  4. 4.

    See Chap. 1 for a detailed account.

  5. 5.

    Note that Marie was convinced that the left inferior frontal region (i.e. Broca’s area) has nothing to do with language.

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Rutten, GJ. (2017). The Diagram Makers and Their Critics. In: The Broca-Wernicke Doctrine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54633-9_4

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