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• post mortems of wernicke and brocas pts showed lesions in many areas- not just one
• ignores role of brain plasticity
• Lashley (1950)

  Localisation of function - limitation:Removed 10-50% of cortex areas in rat brains, who were learning a maze. Found process of learning required every area of cortex; no area was more important. Suggests higher cognitive functions are not localised but distributed more holistically.