Fair objection, Jack. I have this to say.
1.- No neuroscientist has yet proven causal relationship between cognition and brain activity, but only a correspondence relationship at best. That is why the two-century-long efforts by neuroscientists, physicists and others to unravel the mechanisms within the central nervous system that are responsible for the production of thoughts. In the lack of the above, the maps that you report, known ever since Cajal with little improvement over the decades, have no more solid experimental basis than the atlas of cognition that I have proposed.
2.- My aim was not to propose a model of cognition based on neuronal anatomy, which is not the subject matter of assignment, but to present the structure of pure human cognition according to a fitting mathematical formalism, as I understand the subject matter to be.
3.- The mentation atlas that I presented is not merely "populated after the fact with affective terms" as you put it. It is what you end up with when you attempt to normalize the repertory of human thoughts according to their phenomenological qualities, in almost the same manner as the normalization of population data, blood pressure in a population, individuals heights, IQ scores, etc. gives you a (normal) Gaussian Distribution. The latter stands for the most universal form of distributions, and it is amply grandfathered by the Quanto-Geometric Model I propose. I recognize that such novelty may and will meet resistance.
4.- The encompassing cognitive triplet structure of conscious/semi-conscious/unconscious is universally recognized in all schools of psychology, while at the same time every human individual can attest to it from their own daily mental experience. I show how it can be narrowly apprehended from specific mathematical categories that are consistent as well with the distribution of thoughts, emotions and intentions. My vision only asks of anyone for recourse to introspection for corroboration and calls NOT for the sacrifice and torture of a single cat's brain.
Now, if I wanted to present a correlated neuro-anatomical atlas to my mentation atlas, I could very eloquently do so based on experimental outcomes. But I would have been off-topic, don't you think, Jack?
Again, I earnestly wish you good luck in this contest and appreciate the serious effort that you have shown in your essay.
Joseph