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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

Brain Inspired

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The Neuronal Reuse Aspect

You don't need to identify the function of a particular region of the brain to do good neuroscientific work with an ROI. You can say, ah, well, here's its vector. Here's its activity budget. This is its set of functional characteristics. And then you can quantify its diversity and look at the ways in which these things affect that node. I'm just thinking in terms of like when we perseverate, we're going back to those same patterns and we're not as plastic as we think we are.

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