Diving in to how our brains process information
Why don’t you eat your friend’s lunch when you are hungry? Cognitive control. Researchers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science and Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis are working together to better understand this aspect of cognition.
Human Connectome Project releases major data set on brain connectivity
The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to
link brain connectivity to human behavior, has just released a set of
high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. Shown is a map of the average “functional connectivity” in the human cerebral cortex, collected on healthy subjects while “at rest” in the MRI scanner.