Editing Cognitive neuroscience (section)

====Localizationist view====
The localizationist view was concerned with mental abilities being localized to specific areas of the brain rather than on what the characteristics of the abilities were and how to measure them.{{sfn|Kosslyn|Andersen|1995|p={{pn|date=March 2025}}}} Studies performed in Europe, such as those of [[John Hughlings Jackson]], supported this view. Jackson studied patients with [[brain damage]], particularly those with [[epilepsy]]. He discovered that the epileptic patients often made the same [[clonus|clonic]] and tonic movements of muscle during their seizures, leading Jackson to believe that they must be caused by activity in the same place in the brain every time. Jackson proposed that specific functions were localized to specific areas of the brain,<ref>Enersen, O. D. 2009</ref> which was critical to future understanding of the [[brain lobes]].