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Brain and Behaviour: Critical Concepts in Psychology

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Brain damage often has tragic consequences, and as a result we are becoming increasingly aware of the relationship between brain and cognition. Ever increasing numbers of neuropsychologists are studying the effects of the brain on behaviour and these four volumes present papers on this relationship from the onset of this field of study in the mid-19th century to the present day. ""Brain and Behaviour"" reveals the history of the study of brain and cognition that goes back much further than the rapid advances of the last 20 years. This study has had a profound impact on the way psychologists and other cognitive scientists construct their models of mental functions and how the brain is related to these functions. In historical terms, the mid-19th century is given as the time of the start of recent interest in the relationship between brain and behaviour as it is the time when the French physician Paul Broca performed an autopsy which revealed that the brain was critically involved in speech production. Since then further profound observations and theoretical insights have continued to add to the growing debate. The papers contained here are selected by the influence they have had on fo

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