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".
"These [new] findings suggest that, despite completely different brain organization and hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary divergence, pigeons and monkeys solve this problem in a similar way," says Brannon.
In a very recent study of our team, by applying the Stroop Color World task, it was observed that there are alterations in executive control in reference to handedness, thus supporting the view of a different brain functional organization between right- and left-handers [ 44].
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 two methods assessed different levels of brain organization (functional recruitment during task performance vs. structural changes resulting from brain development and plasticity).
A comprehensive understanding of the setting up of hemispheric lateralization thus calls for the characterization of factors' influence at different levels of brain organization, a first step being here the investigation of variations in HG anatomy with handedness.
This can be naturally affected by different genetic and environmental factors during the intrauterine period, leading, thereby, to individual differences in brain organization and function after birth [3].
The cerebral cortex is a well-organized and laminated structure in both embryonic and adult brains, yet its cellular organization is spatially dependent and varies in different brain regions.
Analysis of functional connectivity with MEG can investigate the functional organization of the brain based on temporal correlations in neuromagnetic signal fluctuations in different brain regions.
Listening to rhythm, melody and harmony activates different brain regions.
