«In case
you thought brain anatomy is a solved problem, take it from us — it isn't,» says Van Wedeen, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown and a principal investigator for the Human Connectome Project (HCP), a US - government - funded global consortium that published the brain map.
Not exact matches
But what he
thought was a discovery was actually a rediscovery — a snippet of
brain anatomy lost to science for decades.
Using a series of electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, Park plans to go beyond naming the
brain region where magnitude processing takes place to identify the
anatomy and function of neural pathways involved in magnitude processing and reveal neural mechanisms that support mathematical
thinking.
After a pictorial timeline of
brain exploration and a quick journey through the
brain itself, chapters cover
brain anatomy, the senses, movement, emotions, language, memory,
thinking, consciousness, development, disorders and more.