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Overall intelligence and localized brain damage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2007

Dahlia W. Zaidel
Dahlia W. Zaidel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563. dahliaz@ucla.eduhttp://dwz.psych.ucla.edu/LabWebSite.htm
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Abstract

Overall mean performance on intelligence tests by brain-damaged patients with focal lesions can be misleading in regard to localization of intelligence. The widely used WAIS has many subtests that together recruit spatially distant neural “centers,” but individually the subtests reveal localized functions. Moreover, there are kinds of intelligence that defy the localizationist approach inferred from brain damage.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 173 - 174
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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