Task Selectivity as a Comprehensive Principle for Brain Organization

Publication date: Available online 3 April 2017
Source:Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Author(s): Amir Amedi, Shir Hofstetter, Shachar Maidenbaum, Benedetta Heimler
How do the anatomically consistent functional selectivities of the brain emerge? A new study by Bola and colleagues reveals task selectivity in auditory rhythm-selective areas in congenitally deaf adults perceiving visual rhythm sequences. Here, we contextualize this result with accumulating evidence from animal and human studies supporting sensory-independent task specializations as a comprehensive principle shaping brain (re)organization.



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