Verma, K.; Kumar, S. How Do We Connect Brain Areas with Cognitive Functions? The Past, the Present and the Future. NeuroSci2022, 3, 521-532.
Verma, K.; Kumar, S. How Do We Connect Brain Areas with Cognitive Functions? The Past, the Present and the Future. NeuroSci 2022, 3, 521-532.
Verma, K.; Kumar, S. How Do We Connect Brain Areas with Cognitive Functions? The Past, the Present and the Future. NeuroSci2022, 3, 521-532.
Verma, K.; Kumar, S. How Do We Connect Brain Areas with Cognitive Functions? The Past, the Present and the Future. NeuroSci 2022, 3, 521-532.
Abstract
It is one of the central goals of cognitive neuroscience to understand how structure and function relate in the brain. We review how cognitive function characterization has been approached in the past. In addition, we examine the ongoing efforts, as well as the implications for the future. Clinical studies on patients with lesions have provided key insights into the relationship between brain areas and behavior over the past century. We describe cognitive function according to localization considering these early efforts for characterization. We chose a perceptual-cognitive function, namely body perception, to describe our current efforts. Using body perception as an example, we summarize contemporary techniques. Finally, we outline the trajectory of current progress into the future and discuss the implications for clinical and basic neuroscience.
Keywords
cognition; cognitive functions; localization; lesion studies; body perception; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); electrical microsimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation; extrastriate body area; fusiform body area
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Neuroscience and Neurology
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