2014/05/14 by Marcus Kaiser, Kaiser, Marcus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #FOS: Biological sciences #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #q-bio.NC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1405.3334
Dynamic Connectome Lab, Technical Report No. 4
arxiv created 2014/05/14 · openalex publication_date 2014/05/14 · arxiv updated 2014/05/15 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Neural systems show a modular and typically also a hierarchical organisation across different levels and across different species. Topology relates to function, but it is also influences dynamics as earlier studies showed its effect on synchrony, oscillation, and activity propagation. Understanding the link between the hierarchical organisation and processing (e.g. does consciousness structurally correlate with the top level of the hierarchy and where is the 'top' in a network?) remains one of the main challenges of the field. In addition, although neuron nodes are often treated as uniform entities, they can differ in terms of function (e.g. inhibitory vs. excitatory), morphology, or gene expression pattern.