fMRI in human and macaque subjects using equivalent cognitive tasks enables direct comparisons of the functional brain architecture, even for high-level cognitive functions.
Together, these results suggest that achieving efficient computation may serve as a basic design principle which generalizes across neural systems processing low-level and high-level cognitive functions.
This route involves identifying computational correlates of consciousness in neurocomputational models of high-level cognitive functions that are associated with subjective mental states.
This paradigm thus exemplifies the potential for fMRI to explore high-level cognitive functions, and awareness, in the absence of any behavioral response.
After all, it was not just high-level cognitive functions, like reading, that were affected by B.T.'s condition — even basic things like depth perception were difficult for her.
For example, in neuroscience, an area of active research focuses on using single-cell RNA-seq to comprehensively identify all cellular subtypes in the brain, with the ultimate goal of achieving an exhaustive map of the cellular network that supports high-level cognitive functions.
Changes in synaptic signal size and time course (plasticity) may underlie high-level cognitive functions, such as learning and memory, and can also be an integral component of many neurological disorders.
Thus, our results are congruent with the ideas that creativity is associated with the integration of conceptually distant ideas held in different brain domains and architectures and that creativity is supported by diverse high-level cognitive functions, particularly those of the frontal lobe.
The series covers low-level sensory, attentive, perceptual and motor processes, and high-level cognitive functions including learning, memory, language, communication, decision, thinking, cognitive control and action planning.
