The Dangers of Cortical Brain Maps

Benjamin Yost Hayden

doi:10.1162/jocn_e_01924

The Dangers of Cortical Brain Maps

Benjamin Yost Hayden

Neuroscience

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Abstract

The parcellation of the primate cerebral cortex into numbered regions, based on cytoarchitecture, has greatly helped neuroscientists in our quest to understand how the brain implements cognition. Nonetheless, these maps provide an unnecessarily constraining view of how we should do functional neuroanatomy. It is time to think more broadly. Doing so will help advance the goal of incorporating ideas about emergentist organization and interactional complexity into neuroscience.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	372-375
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_e_01924
State	Published - Mar 1 2023

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This research was supported by National Institutes of Health grants R01 MH129439 and MH125377.

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National Institutes of Health, grant numbers: R01 MH129439 and MH125377.

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© 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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