But, he says, "it will be interesting to see whether the individuals with autism and synesthesia differ in some fundamental way from those with either condition alone whether they have different brain organization, for example".
Taking the above caveats into account, the present behavioural, MRI and VBM data together allow certain conclusions to be drawn about the breakdown of brain organization for pain and temperature processing in these neurodegenerative diseases.
Strength of handedness, or the degree to which an individual prefers to use a single hand to perform various tasks, is a neurological marker for brain organization and has been shown to be linked to episodic memory, attribute framing, and anchoring, as well as other domains and tasks.
14 Given these pervasive patterns of brain organization, is there evidence for more abstract and modality independent hierarchical structuring in the brain?
Functional connectivity provides an informative and powerful framework for exploring brain organization.
EEG patterns and their relationship to other physiologic signals serve as templates for normal brain organization and maturation, subserving multiple interconnected neuronal networks.
There is already some empirical support for these new theoretical approaches in the face literature [see the DCM face-processing study reviewed above (Cohen Kadosh et al. 2011)], and this network approach to brain organization has also been investigated for other cognitive domains, such as resting state and cognitive control (Fair et al. 2007, 2008).
Different answers, perhaps, may be given for different levels of brain organization and also at different levels of analysis and there are grounds for thinking that culture, typically interacting with gender, may complicate any answer as well, at least at the level of self-report.
The examination of functional connectivity in fMRI data collected during task-free "rest" has provided a powerful tool for studying functional brain organization.
We conclude that the use of sleep fMRI may be a valuable tool for examining functional brain organization in young children.
