Friday, April 2, 2004

12 noon

Redwood Neuroscience Institute

 

Title:   “Quantitative Aspects of Cortico-cortical Long-range Connectivity”

 

Almut Schüz

Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Tübingen, Germany

 

Abstract:

We have approached basic questions of cortico-cortical long-range connectivity from various sides: 1) in a quantitative study on the human cortical white matter, 2) in a study on the mouse cortex with the anterograde tracer BDA, and 3) by comparing our tracer-data on the mouse cortex with others from literature on the monkey. I would like to discuss with you how cortico-cortical long-range connectivity depends on brain size and what the results tell us on cortico-cortical interaction.