Topic: functional modularity

Humans and other animals often perform similar actions in different contexts. For instance, we use different criteria when judging whether an apple or avocado are ripe, but use very similar motor actions to move the fruit into our basket if we select it. We hypothesize that this ability to context switch is facilitated by functional modularity within brain regions, such as the specialization of a subpopulation of inferotemporal cortex neurons for face relative to non-face features. However, the link between this functional modularity and context-dependent behavior is not fully understood. Here