{"id":7773,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/double_dissociation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:30","slug":"double_dissociation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/double_dissociation\/","title":{"rendered":"Double dissociation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">95%<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>There are many who have questioned the logic of double dissociations as a means of identifying particular brain areas as the substrates for particular functions. &nbsp;One criticism is that this approach assumes that a specific region of the brain has a unitary function when there is considerable evidence for one anatomically or histologically identifiable area to have a multiplicity of different functions. &nbsp;Another is that there are only double dissociations when in fact there may be triple or even quadruple dissociations \u2013 situations that are almost impossible to test in a tractable way. &nbsp;Certainly, double dissociations are not appropriate for uncovering brain-behavior relationships from a developmental perspective as striking dissociations are rare in children and if present interpretation is hampered due to changes in impairments with age. &nbsp;According to <a href=\"http:\/\/oscci.psy.ox.ac.uk\/people\/dorothy-bishop\/\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/oscci.psy.ox.ac.uk\/people\/dorothy-bishop\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dorothy V.M. Bishop<\/a>, group studies are needed aimed at showing how associations, rather than dissociations by means of single-case studies, between impairments develop.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>See Agnosia, Brain-damage studies, Cerebral cortex (functions), Configural processing, Cortical lobes, Domain specificity, Exeprimental method, Impairment, Innate modularity hypothesis, Modularity, Neuropsychology, Recall memory, Recognition memory<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>95% There are many who have questioned the logic of double dissociations as a means of identifying particular brain areas as the substrates for particular functions. &nbsp;One criticism is that this approach assumes that a specific region of the brain has a unitary function when there is considerable evidence for one anatomically or histologically identifiable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/double_dissociation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Double dissociation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}