ReviewBrain sciences2021
From Action to Cognition: Neural Reuse, Network Theory and the Emergence of Higher Cognitive Functions.
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- Mapping EEG Metrics to Human Affective and Cognitive Models: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review from a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Dynamic reconfiguration of brain coactivation states associated with active and lecture-based learning of university physics.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Distinct Functional Connectivity Patterns of Brain Networks Involved in Motor Planning Underlie Verbal and Spatial Working Memory.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Functional coupling of the lateral prefrontal cortex and the default mode network predicts performance in mental rotation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Structural and functional connectivity alteration patterns of the cingulate gyrus in Type 2 diabetes.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2023Article
- How embodied is cognition? fMRI and behavioral evidence for common neural resources underlying motor planning and mental rotation of bodily stimuli.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Embodied cognitive morphogenesis as a route to intelligent systems.Interface focus · 2023Article
- Does mental rotation emulate motor processes? An electrophysiological study of objects and body parts.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to discuss the logic and assumptions behind the concept of neural reuse, to explore its biological advantages and to discuss the implications for the cognition of a brain that reuses existing circuits and resources. We first address the requirements that must be fulfilled for neural reuse to be a biologically plausible mechanism. Neural reuse theories generally take a developmental approach and model the brain as a dynamic system composed of highly flexible neural networks. They often argue against domain-specificity and for a distributed, embodied representation of knowledge, which sets them apart from modular theories of mental processes. We provide an example of reuse by proposing how a phylogenetically more modern mental capacity (mental rotation) may appear through the reuse and recombination of existing resources from an older capacity (motor planning). We conclude by putting arguments into context regarding functional modularity, embodied representation, and the current ontology of mental processes.
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