Amygdala

Amygdala ANOTHER STRIKE AGAINST EQUIPOTENTIALITY IN THE BRAIN A Critique of Amygdala activity related to enhanced memory for pleasant and aversive stimuli Hamann, S.B., Ely, T.D., Grafton, S.T., & Kilts, C.D. Amygdala activity related to enhanced memory for pleasant and aversive stimuli. Nature Neuroscience, 2(3): 289-293. Never has a theory in brain research been as incorrect as the theory of equipotentialism, initiated in the early 17th century. The debate between localism and holism in the brain brought forth great thinkers such as Paul Broca and Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud who bolstered the localism argument, and Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens who argued for holism or equipontiality. It was during this debate that Broca first concluded upon the lateralization of language in the left hemisphere. The investigation of localization of language in a brain disproving the holistic qualities of the brain was the first of a multitude of evidence that refuted equipotentiality as an applicable theory n the brain. Consistent with this legacy is research completed by Hamann et al. (1999), which further localizes brain function in the temporal lobes of a structure called the amygadala. Temporal lobes have been linked to memory via studies of amnesic subjects with damage to this structure, but there memory, stimuli, amygdala, brain, pleasant, hamann, emotional, et, al, subjects, recognition, aversive, been, study, sexual, pictures, activity, during, data, arousing, arousal, upon, theory, studies, related, recall, mechanisms, enhanced, drawings, damage, between, via, verbally, using, testing