{"id":173102,"date":"2023-09-29T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-human-brains-characteristic-wrinkles-help-to-drive-how-it-works"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:33:32","slug":"the-human-brains-characteristic-wrinkles-help-to-drive-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-human-brains-characteristic-wrinkles-help-to-drive-how-it-works","title":{"rendered":"The human brain\u2019s characteristic wrinkles help to drive how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-human-brains-characteristic-wrinkles-help-to-drive-how-it-works3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s authors compared the influence of two components of the brain\u2019s physical structure: the outer folds of the cerebral cortex \u2014 the area where most higher-level brain activity occurs \u2014 and the connectome, the web of nerves that links distinct regions of the cerebral cortex. The team found that the shape of the outer surface was a better predictor of brainwave data than was the connectome, contrary to the paradigm that the connectome has the dominant role in driving brain activity. \u201cWe use concepts from physics and engineering to study how anatomy determines function,\u201d says study co-author James Pang, a physicist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A model of the brain\u2019s geometry better explains neuronal activity than a model based on the \u2018connectome\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study\u2019s authors compared the influence of two components of the brain\u2019s physical structure: the outer folds of the cerebral cortex \u2014 the area where most higher-level brain activity occurs \u2014 and the connectome, the web of nerves that links distinct regions of the cerebral cortex. The team found that the shape of the outer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,418,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-internet","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173106,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173102\/revisions\/173106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}