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Discuss “Connections found in brain ”

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Marcel Just and Stanford postdoctoral fellow Sashank Varma have proposed new principles that explain how the human brain operates when performing complex cognitive tasks, such as language comprehension and spatial reasoning.

Within the field of cognitive science, the accepted belief is that there exists a one-to-one mapping between particular high-level cognitive processes and the activation of a single cortical area. That is, each area of a person’s brain is responsible for a particular cognitive task.

According to Just and Varma’s publication in Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, this interpretation is incorrect and a “gross oversimplification of a more complex ... many-to-many...

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