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Are interactive specialization and massive redeployment compatible?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

Michael L. Anderson
Michael L. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604. [email protected]
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Abstract

I offer a simple method for further investigating the Interactive Specialization framework, and some data that may or may not be compatible with the approach, depending on the precise meaning of “specialization.” Findings from my lab indicate that, while networks of brain areas cooperate in specialized ways to support cognitive functions, individual brain areas participate in many such networks, in different cognitive domains.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 331 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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