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Neuroscience used to focus on identifying and understanding specific regions of the brain, but this approach oversimplified their functions. In "The Entangled Brain," Luiz Pessoa argues that it is time for a new perspective that recognizes the interconnectedness of perception, cognition, and emotion in the brain.
For much of its history, neuroscience focused on identifying discrete regions of the brain and attempting to ascertain their function in lesion studies and with neuroimaging. However, this approach led to an over-simplified view, in which individual areas are often associated with particular processes to an extent that borders on caricature—for example, characterising the amygdala as responsible for fear and the striatum as responsible for reward. This view might have been useful in the early days of neuroscience, but in The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together, Luiz Pessoa argues that it is time for a change of perspective.