Toujours dans le cadre du Human Connectome Project
The #Brain, in Exquisite Detail - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/the-brain-in-exquisite-detail.html
ST. LOUIS — Deanna Barch talks fast, as if she doesn’t want to waste any time getting to the task at hand, which is substantial. She is one of the researchers here at Washington University working on the first interactive wiring diagram of the living, working human brain.
The Mapmakers
M. F. Glasser and D.C. Van Essen for the WU-Minn HCP Consortium
The many folds and valleys of a single brain surface, left, and a composite image using data from 12 subjects, right, suggest the degree of variation in human brains.
To build this diagram she and her colleagues are doing brain scans and cognitive, psychological, physical and genetic assessments of 1,200 volunteers. They are more than a third of the way through collecting information. Then comes the processing of data, incorporating it into a three-dimensional, interactive map of the healthy human brain showing structure and function, with detail to one and a half cubic millimeters, or less than 0.0001 cubic inches.
Cet article fait partie d’une série, The mapmakers — Articles in this series will examine new efforts to understand how the brain works, and the scientists behind them. #cerveau
cf. A Search for Self in a Brain Scan (January 7, 2014)
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/science/a-search-for-self-in-a-brain-scan.html
