ABSTRACT
The history of our attempts to understand how the brain gives rise to mental activity can be divided into three major periods. During classical antiquity, the emphasis was not on specific cognitive functions but rather on the question of the localization of the soul (Cassano, 1996). The medieval period saw the development of a three-part model of cognition and was dominated by the ventricular localization theory (Schiller, 1997). The modern era of cortical localization is often considered to have begun with the work of Paul Broca (1861, 1863), but there were of course many antecedents to his discovery. 1
