Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 33, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

Neural reuse and human individual differences

Cristina D. Rabagliaa1 and Gary F. Marcusa1

a1 Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003. rabaglia@nyu.edu gary.marcus@nyu.edu

Abstract

We find the theory of neural reuse to be highly plausible, and suggest that human individual differences provide an additional line of argument in its favor, focusing on the well-replicated finding of “positive manifold,” in which individual differences are highly correlated across domains. We also suggest that the theory of neural reuse may be an important contributor to the phenomenon of positive manifold itself.

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