Structural Core to the Human Brain?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008A new imaging study of the brain, Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex, reveals an architecture that connects the distributed nodes and subsystems of the cortex into a centralized activity hub that guides thinking and behavior.
NY Times coverage on the article provides a nice visualization as a hub “in a region about the size of a palm, centered atop the cortex like a small skullcap.”
This finding, if it holds up, repaints our picture of the brain activity in the Cerebral Cortex to resemble a “hub map of the airport system in the United States.”