Could Complex Organization that can be mapped in an Atlas really be the product of time + chance?
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"Human Brain Project (HBP) shed light on these
relationships and enable a more comprehensive understanding of human
brain 
organization.
The
HBP researchers conducted a study that targeted three levels of
cortical organization: cytoarchitecture, neurotransmitter receptor
architecture, and neurotransmitter receptor gene expression.
The study
elucidates principles of human brain organization across the visual,
auditory, somatosensory, and motor functional systems, going beyond the
simplified view of a ‘mosaic’ of areas forming the neocortex.
The
results were published in the journal NeuroImage.
To
reveal the different properties of functional systems, and how brain
areas within a functional system differ with respect to the processing
hierarchy — from primary to higher associative, the team analyzed
cytoarchitectonic and receptorarchitectonic data of the Julich Brain
Atlas – a three-dimensional multimodal atlas of the human brain – and
compared the data with transcriptomic data from the Allen Human Brain
Atlas."
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