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A Map of the Imagined: Topographic Principles of Sensory Simulation in the Human Parietal Cortex

2026-08-04

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The cerebral cortex forms a structured landscape in which the location of brain regions shapes their cognitive functions. Based on this cognitive topography, brain regions are not isolated modules but embedded within a macroscale terrain where both cortical geometry and connectivity jointly shape cognition. If cortical locus does modulate cognition, then even internally generated processes (e.g., imagery) might ob...

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Literature Corpus work: 75de0f32-5af5-5c66-9ea5-37262f60c646
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.03.742540

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