The discipline of neuroscience makes use of network theory to identify the structures relating to functionality of the brain. Consider the paper by Vértes et al. [469]. You do not need to study all the details of the paper. The authors write: ‘We therefore anticipate that many aspects of brain network organization, in health and disease, may be parsimoniously explained by an economical clustering rule for the probability of functional connectivity between different brain areas’.

(a) From the perspective of prototypical models, how will you characterise the modelling described in the paper?
(b) Check which later papers have cited Vértes et al. [469]. Does this indicate that the modelling presented in [469] was robust and captured the most important aspects of the brain functionality?
(c) With an eye on the paper ‘Brain networks and cognitive architectures’ [342] by Petersen and Sporns, consider what a prototypicalmodel of human cognition couldl ook like.
(d) Imagine we have established a simple model of the brain network. Could such a model possess emergent structures resembling aspects of the human mind?