Editing Cognitive neuroscience (section)

====Mapping the brain====
In 1870, German physicians [[Eduard Hitzig]] and [[Gustav Fritsch]] published their findings of the behavior of animals. Hitzig and Fritsch ran an electric current through the cerebral cortex of a dog, causing different muscles to contract depending on which areas of the brain were electrically stimulated. This led to the proposition that individual functions are localized to specific areas of the brain rather than the cerebrum as a whole, as the aggregate field view suggests.<ref name="Fritsch & Hitzig 2009"/> [[Korbinian Brodmann|Brodmann]] was also an important figure in brain mapping; his experiments based on Franz Nissl's tissue staining techniques divided the brain into fifty-two areas.