Questions about the Localisation of Function poster

What’s on the Localisation of Function poster?

Localisation evidence against Distributed evidence, side by side. Localisation evidence: Broca's area — speech production; Localisation evidence: Wernicke's area — comprehension; Localisation evidence: Motor and somatosensory homunculus; Localisation evidence: Phineas Gage — frontal damage, personality change; Localisation evidence: Focal lesions cause specific deficits; Distributed evidence: Lashley: equipotentiality in learning; Distributed evidence: Complex tasks activate many regions; Distributed evidence: Plasticity allows functional takeover; Distributed evidence: Networks, not single areas; Distributed evidence: fMRI shows widespread co-activation; Modern view: functions are localised but organised as networks. Damage to a node disr…. Broca's aphasia impairs production with comprehension relatively intact; Wernicke's produces fluent but meaningless speech.

Who is the Localisation of Function poster for?

Localisation of Function belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning biological can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Localisation of Function poster?

Both are true. Specific functions are localised; complex behaviour is networked. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Localisation of Function belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Localisation of Function?

Brain Structures, Biological Rhythms and Brain Imaging sit alongside Localisation of Function in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Brain StructuresBiological RhythmsBrain Imaging

Is the Localisation of Function poster free to download and print?

Yes. Localisation of Function downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Localisation of Function poster print at?

Localisation of Function is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Localisation of Function loses nothing.Printing guide