The psychophysiological basis of higher mental functions are complex functional systems that include a large number of afferent and efferent links and have a vertical (cortical-subcortical) and horizontal (cortical-cortical) organization. Part of the links of the functional system is rigidly “fixed” to certain areas of the brain, the rest are highly plastic and can replace each other, which underlies the mechanism for restructuring functional systems as a whole. Thus, the higher mental functions are associated with the work of not one “brain center” and not the entire brain as a homogeneous equipotential whole, but are the result of the systemic activity of the brain, in which various brain structures take a differentiated part.
2022-05-30