The weight of neuroscientific evidence has demonstrated that the brain is organized into distinct cortical areas, which perform dissociable sets of information processing operations There are additional ideas about how the cortex may be organized, including smoother transitions/gradients, and equipotentiality (everywhere can/does do everything; including softer versions of this theory which acknowledge sensory & motor areas as being distinct). Some of these ideas have been reinvigorated by recent observations from human neuroimaging. New/refined hypotheses are critical to advance our understanding of the brain, but models of brain organization can’t live in the silo of a given method (which can be prone to unique sources of bias/error), as they need to be able to explain other sources of evidence (work in animal neuroanatomy & physiology, lesion studies in humans, etc.) Our thoughts on these issues, and a primer on cortical arealization now available here: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08… Plus see below for Evan’s detailed thread on the paper