Functional specialization (brain)

In neuroscience, functional specialization is a theory which suggests that different areas in the brain are specialized for different functions.^[1]^[2] It is opposed to the anti-localizationist theories and brain holism and equipotentialism.^[3]^[4]^[5]

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