One Reason That Early Research on Specific Human Cognitive Capacities

question 17

Multiple Choice

One reason that early research on specific human cognitive capacities and the brain areas that are responsible for them developed rather slowly before the 20th century is that

• A)most early investigators were limited to postmortem studies to localize lesions.
• B)most early investigators focused on analyzing the shape of the skull.
• C)most early investigators focused on studying the brain-behavior relationship in animals rather than in humans.
• D)there was little interest in this field until the 20th century.

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