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pie whose fingers have been cut off often say that they have pain 

 in the missing finger, and when you are seated on a hard or un- 

 comfortable chair your foot " goes to sleep." 



Now, just as the fingers are joined to the brain we must believe 

 that the other organs are joined to it. Thus the eye sends in its 

 thousands of little threads to one part of the brain surface, the 

 ear to another, the nose and tongue to another. So that each of 



Fig. 2.— Diagrammatic Representation of the Direction of some of the Fibers in the Cere- 

 brum (Le Bon). The foldings of the surface; the association fibers joining different regions of 

 the surface with each other; and the fibers passing down to the organs of sense are shown. 



the organs of sense is related to a special region of the brain. And 

 each of these regions receives messages from its own particular 

 organ and from no other. That is what is meant by the term 

 localization of brain functions ; namely, that each power of sensa- 

 tion can be assigned to a location of its own. This idea aids very 

 materially our conception of the senses. The sense of sight, for 

 example, can not be thought of as dependent upon the eye alone, 

 but upon the eye and the visual part of the brain surface with 

 their connecting threads. And, after all, we must admit that we 

 do not really see with our eyes or hear with our ears. Why does 

 your friend want to hurry through an art gallery, while you wish 



