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Introduction: Movement, Cognition, and the Vertically Organized Brain

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How does the mind work? This question has puzzled philosophers, physicians, and artists for centuries. This question has led to remarkable discoveries, and in turn, further questions. Currently, technological advances appear to be outpacing our abilities to keep up with applying them. Yet the same questions continue to arise. Why do we keep losing our keys? Why do we have the same argument over and over again? Why do we hit a hole-in-one on the golf course one day and are lucky to bogey the same hole a week later? These kinds of questions are no less significant than questions regarding why societies fail to learn from history or individuals allow envy or greed to turn them away from important opportunities. Science has long attempted to answer these and other questions. Sometimes what we know can get in the way of discoveries yet to be made, exemplified by earlier assumptions about the “unimportant” prefrontal lobes or the “silent” right hemisphere. Nevertheless, discoveries continue and the neurosciences in turn continue to adapt to these discoveries along with their associated intended and unintended consequences.

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Koziol, L.F., Budding, D.E. (2009). Introduction: Movement, Cognition, and the Vertically Organized Brain. In: Subcortical Structures and Cognition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84868-6_1

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