ABSTRACT
In what part of the brain does a particular mental process occur? What a simple and direct question this seems to be-at first reading. This query embodies the most obvious line of psychobiological experimental inquiry and is almost dictated by the requirements of therapeutic manipulation: How could one possibly cure a "brain" ailment unless one could identify the place in which the difficulty lay? The theory of brain organization that asserts that particular psychological functions are mediated by particular brain loci is, therefore, the logical next development of the fundamental premise that the brain is the seat of mental life and that its parts and their organization define our mental activities. This theoretical point of view is founded on the corollary assumptions that the brain can be analyzed into demarcatable anatomical structures (as described in Chapter 3) and the mind into separable functions (as described in Chapter 4).
