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It could be the case that they're entirely separate: functional modules that don't overlap the structural modules at all. We often look for spatial maps in the brain, but the existence of salt-and-pepper maps shows that the brain doesn't have to organise spatially.
It could be somewhere in between, with functional modules partially overlapping structural modules, which would explain why we can observe partial functional deficits after lesions to some but not all areas.
Or maybe the brain isn't constrained to have anything that we would recognise as functional modularity at all? We won't get too deeply into that possibility, but we did ask what are the features we would expect based on our intuitions about modularity?
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