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As reviewed in this text, tremendous progress has been made over the past 15 years in the development of brain-imaging techniques and our ability to link imaging data with important aspects of behavior. These advances have had a great impact on both theoretical and clinical issues in the neurosciences and have greatly refined neurological diagnostics, as has been discussed by Rutledge (Chapter 2). Likewise, the greater specificity and precision of current brain-imaging techniques have provided a more complete paradigm for the study of the neurological patient in which the effects of focal, lateralized, and/or generalized neurological damage/dysfunction can be compared with neuropsychological function. Much past research in cognitive neuroscience had been hampered by the inability to study simultaneously anatomy and pathology of the brain and function. As the current generation of research unfolds, we have to rethink our understanding of the brain and its relationship to cognition and neuropsychological function. For example, as pointed out by Knopman, Seines, and Rubens (Chapter 5), the language system of the brain may not be as localized as was once thought, and Haaland and Yeo (Chapter 8) make similar statements about motor control in their attempt to elucidate the complex factors that are involved in motor function.
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Bigler, E.D., Yeo, R.A., Turkheimer, E. (1989). Neuropsychological Functioning 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_13
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