Please check out this classic description of the visual topologic map organization:
http://hubel.med.harvard.edu/book/bcontex.htm
And this one showing preservation of topology in the subsequent map-to-map connections.
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1750/20121372
Much of this is highly topologically arranged.
Following up on a basic HTM tenant - the brain uses much the same arrangement everywhere. I have no reason to believe that this basic principle fails as we move from the sensory areas to the association areas. I have been looking to the connectome project to see if the association areas are surrounded with specialty processing areas like V1 and the auditory cortex. (Examples: motion, texture, color, phase delay, …)
I will have to dig through my papers to find the ones that show the topology being preserved going from map-to-map in other sensory streams but for now here are some related links showing how important preservation of topology is in the sensory encoding areas:
(Check the links on the bottom of this wiki page!)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7601/abs/nature17941.html
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v15/n4/fig_tab/nn.3046_F3.html
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar/papers/bednar.tn15_accepted.pdf