The Discovery of Several Different Sensory and Motor Regions of the Brain

question 22

Multiple Choice

The discovery of several different sensory and motor regions of the brain in the 1870s proved that

• A) there was more localization of function than Flourens had believed, but it was of a different kind from that hypothesized by phrenologists.
• B) the brain acts as a unit, as postulated by Flourens's theory of action commune.
• C) many phrenological localizations had been surprisingly accurate.
• D) it was futile to expect to learn anything from ablation studies.

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