The “local to distributed” organizing principle resonates with recent suggestions that perceptual and cognitive development involve the simultaneous segregation and integration of information processing streams [1],[22],[76],[79],[80]. For instance, the “interactive specialization” hypothesis advanced by Johnson and colleagues, is consistent with these findings [1], [81]–[83]. Johnson points out that cortical regions and pathways have biased information processing properties at birth due to anatomic connectivity, yet they are much less selective than in adults (i.e., they are “broadly tuned”).
