Vin Bhaskara @vinbhaskara.github.io · Feb 28

Inspiring talk by Prof. @nancykanwisher.bsky.social today at McGill on the specificity of cortical regions for various functions/stimuli. Some intriguing points of the talk👇 - a thread: 🧵 (1/10)

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Vin Bhaskara · Feb 28

Specificity roughly refers to a localized region with significantly heightened neural activation compared to the rest of the cortex. It does not mean an isolated region that's solely responsible for a function (which never quite happens). Every function involves multiple regions. (2/10)