Structural Core to the Human Brain?
A 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.”
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
The more we know about the human brain, and medical science in general, the more it shows us how much we don’t know, and how much we have to learn.