They even argue that although speech perception shares an end organ with auditory perception, it constitutes a functionally distinct modular perceptual system (Liberman and Mattingly 1985, 7-10, 27-30, see also 1989).
The more fundamental consciousness is to basic animal functioning, the more widely distributed and ancient consciousness must be; if, however, consciousness is relatively modular, functionally narrow, and conceptually high level, then it should be narrowly distributed among animals and relatively recently evolved.
Such a view is fully confirmed by the analysis of modularity: Although modular organization is a desirable and functionally key property of cellular maps, it can arise as a by-product of the rules driving network growth.
Manufacturing industrial products are developed, both structurally and functionally, in a highly modular fashion to simplify design, accelerate construction, and minimize repair and maintenance with the objective of yielding cost savings in product evolution and sustainment.
Our analysis of the pdm cis-regulation indicates that the spatiotemporal dynamics of their expression is controlled by a functionally diverse array of modular enhancers.
In opposition to these findings, Wang et al., by breaking down a PPI network into structure modules, found that the network is not functionally organized at the modular level and suggested it evolves neutrally [ 30].
Its relation to functional characteristics is modular and seems modest, with partial association with gene expression divergences, differences between functionally related marks and partial co-variation between marks that may confer stability.
The modular functionality of PROFESS coupled with user friendly searching capabilities makes PROFESS particularly useful for asking a range of questions about the sequence, structure, and functional relationship of evolutionary and functionally related proteins.
