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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-nineteenth 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 twenty 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-nineteenth 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 following developments and therefore are the first expression of those ideas resulting in a good number of the papers originating from the early twentieth and even nineteenth century. The papers are primarily concerned with behaviour rather than neuroanatomy and are devoted to those areas which give rise to debate and those which were influential in making the link between brain and behaviour. Brain and Behaviour will allow researchers and readers to make up their own minds about the quality of the evidence in a compilation that spans many areas of cognition.

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