![]() And localization provides an intriguing way to understand The Waves (1931). ![]() ![]() The parallel to the fragmented structure of many modernist paintings seems fairly straightforward. What we experience then is not simply a reflection of the world which our intelligence interprets but rather more like a collage painted by multiple painters all working at the same time. Localization is a theory that the human brain does not function as a coherent whole but rather is a collection of separate, localized organs, each of which generates a distinct part of consciousness. ![]() Historians of neuroscience describe this as the “era of localization” (Finger 323). From around 1860 to 1920, a new concept dominated theories of physiology, a concept curiously similar to the fragmentation of modernist art and literature. ![]()
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