It's exactly this discrepancy that I find so fascinating! It's what I spent my PhD on :) I believe that the two major players here are plasticity and connectiv

It's exactly this discrepancy that I find so fascinating! It's what I spent my PhD on :) I believe that the two major players here are plasticity and connectivity. If you lose a critical hub in the network, you're going to be much worse off than if you lose a loosely connected, plastic region. That's the point of these two papers: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921401 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20921401 <- free open access http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040843 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040843 <- lame closed