Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 14:11 in Mathematics & Economics

Researchers have mapped 180 distinct areas in our brain’s outer mantle, or cortex – more than twice the number previously known. They have also developed software that automatically detects the “fingerprint” of each of these areas in an individual’s brain scans.  Funded by the National Institutes of Health through its Human Connectome Project (HCP), this software […]

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