Cerebral localization of higher functions: anatomic structures before the identification of their memory function

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  • Eliasz Engelhardt

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https://doi.org/10.46979/rbn.v56i2.36199

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Neurologia

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The nature of memory and the search for its localization have been a subject of interest since Antiquity. After millennia of hypothetical concepts the core memory-related structures finally began to be identified through modern scientifically-based methods at the diencephalic, hippocampal, and neocortical levels. However, there was a clear temporal delay between the finding of these anatomic structures ignoring their function, and their identification related to memory function. Thus, the core structures begun to be identified with a pure anatomical view in the late Middle Ages on, while the memory function related to them was discovered much later, in the late Modern Period.

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2020-07-09

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