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The study of the effects of known brain lesions on behavior is crucial to progress in understanding the relationship between cognition and the brain. Before the advent of modern brain-imaging techniques, the precise effects of brain lesions could be studied only in animals. This period (circa 1930 to 1975) was extremely productive for animal model research (Kolb & Whishaw, 1985), but progress in human neuropsychology was plagued by the inability to quantify the location, size, or extent of a brain lesion in the living individual.
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Bigler, E.D., Yeo, R.A., Turkheimer, E. (1989). Neuropsychological Function and Brain Imaging. In: Bigler, E.D., Yeo, R.A., Turkheimer, E. (eds) Neuropsychological Function and Brain Imaging. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2534-3_1
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