Redwood Neuroscience Institute
Title: "Functional
implications of primate cortical connectivity"
Rolf
Kötter
C.
&. O. Vogt Brain Research
Abstract:
Progress in neuroinformatics has allowed us to create
the largest and most detailed collation of anatomical connectivity data of the
primate brain (see www.cocomac.org). Using
advanced graph theoretic methods we can now extract connectivity matrices for various
user-defined cortical partitioning schemes. From here we have started to
characterize the connectional organization of the cerebral cortex and to look
for correspondences with functionally relevant data, such as the distribution
of neurotransmitter receptors, or the spatial and temporal spread of activity.
New tools are being developed to address the biggest and most interesting
challenge for connectivity-based analyses: to characterize and explain the
distributed and cooperative processes that occur during cognition.