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What kind of network is the brain?

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Despite the intense current interest in the connectome, a fundamental question is seldom asked: Are the corpus callosum and the intrahemispheric white-matter tracts part of a neural net, where information is embodied in the structure of the net, or do they constitute a communications network, where the same physical substrate carries different information from moment to moment? We argue for the latter. A constraint that has become clear in last year (from the work of Rosen and Halgren) is that only 4% of cortical pyramidal cells have access to long-range tracts. This estimate is concordant with the classical histology of Schüz and Braitenberg.

This research is in collaboration with Marina Danilova and Chie Takahashi.

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