Investigative Techniques: News and Research on Brain Mapping

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How individual consciousness works—and makes us unique

As we go through life, our brains run different processing modes. Some—the attention and sensory systems—result in very similar experiences of the world: what color the sky is, how warm the day feels.

Synaptic connectivity alone can reveal neuron types

Recent technological advances facilitate the reconstruction of complete brain connectomes in small organisms and partial connectomes in mammals, involving the mapping of the network of neurons and synaptic connections. Accurate ...

A 'bird's eye view' of how human brains operate

A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

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