Architectonics of the Human Telencephalic Cortex

This is a timely opus. Most of us now are too young to remember the unpleasant ring of a polemic between those who produced "hair-splitting" parcellations of the cortex (to paraphrase one of O. Vogt''s favourite expressions) and those who saw the cortex as a homogeneous matrix sus­ taining the reverberations of EEG waves (to paraphrase Bailey and von Bonin). One camp accused the other of producing...