Please join us for the next Networks and Complex Systems Talk.
April 6, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Wells Library 001
Olaf Sporns, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, will present, "Complex Brain Networks."
Abstract:
The human brain is a complex network. My talk will be about emerging links between the connectivity structure of the brain and its functional dynamics, and about how we might construct a computational network model of the brain. We now know that structural brain networks exhibit a number of topological features, including small-world attributes, modularity, and hubs. How do these structural features relate to functional characteristics of brain networks, to their dynamic patterns, to their processing power, robustness, or capacity to support flexible behavior? I will review recent work on complex brain networks that aims to identify how brain networks are organized and how they process and integrate information. I will also outline how these efforts may inform the design of a comprehensive structural and dynamic model of the human brain.
Reference: Bullmore, E.T, Sporns, O. (2009) Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 1-13.
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