CiNet Monthly Seminar

2018年4月11日（水）
16:00 ~ 17:00
会場 ： CiNet　1F　大会議室

“Topographic principles of macroscale cortical connectivity”

Daniel Margulies
Associate Professor
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (脳・脊髄研究所)

Host : 竹村浩昌 （天野グループ）

Abstract:
What determines the spatial arrangement of distinct areas of the cerebral cortex? Insights into functional processing streams indicate that areas are arranged stepwise, such that adjacent spatial position along the cortical mantle represents functional gradients. Having been largely restricted to describing processing within specific sensory modalities, how do these principles generalize across modalities and extend to the surrounding association cortex? I will present recent work describing various features of a principal gradient in cortical connectivity that spans between primary sensory/motor areas and higher-order transmodal association regions that in humans are known as the default-mode network.
This arrangement suggests developmental mechanisms giving rise to the spatial distribution of cortical functions, and provides an anatomical scaffolding for investigating the propagation of information at both local and distributed spatial scales.