Theory 13/Specialisation vs Robustness/Neuroscience
Specialists Recover Worse
The claim
Neural regional specialisation trades against recovery from lesion, so a highly specialised area loses more function when damaged than a general one.
01Mechanism
Specialisation means other regions cannot substitute; general regions retain some capacity to take over.
02Prediction
Lesion deficit should track specialisation.
03Refutation
Recovery independent of specialisation would remove the trade-off.