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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 6, 1504, June 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg121

Book Review

PRINCIPLES OF FRONTAL LOBE FUNCTION

Paul J. Harrison

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

PRINCIPLES OF FRONTAL LOBE FUNCTION
By Donald T. Stuss and Robert T. Knight
2002. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.
Price $120. pp. 630. ISBN 0-19-513497-4.

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Ever since Phineas Gage, the prefrontal cortex has occupied a disproportionate amount of neuropsychologists’ time and effort – and more recently that of functional neuroimagers too. This is entirely understandable, given the size, complexity and undoubted importance of the frontal lobes in the most interesting and unique capabilities of the human brain. However, spare a thought for the neglected parietal and temporal lobes; the latter hardly merit a mention here other than to be dismissed . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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