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Beyond disjoint brain networks: Overlapping networks for cognition and emotion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2016

Luiz Pessoa
Luiz Pessoa*
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Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. pessoa@umd.edu http://www.emotioncognition.org
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Abstract

It is taken for granted that the brain is composed of a set of networks. But what is a brain network? How should we characterize them? Adding to Anderson's (2014) persuasive anti-modular framework, I propose that (1) networks do not have a single, unique function; (2) networks are highly overlapping and not disjoint; and (3) tasks reconfigure networks found at rest.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e129
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