The helpful editorial by Drs. Chatterjee and Farah 1 reminds us of what may be the most enduring controversy in neurology, between what they label the “holists” and “localizationists” (often termed topists). Persistence of this controversy is attributable to the continued accumulation of evidence claimed by each side to be inconsistent with the opposite view.
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Chatterjee et al. (2001) studied this question.
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