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SCIENCE
Volume 335, Issue 6076, Pages 1628-1634Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1215280
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- Human Connectome Project [U01 MH093765]
- [NSF PHY-0855161]
- [NIH R01-MH652456]
- [P41 RR-023953]
- [P41 RR-14075]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0855161, 0855453] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The structure of the brain as a product of morphogenesis is difficult to reconcile with the observed complexity of cerebral connectivity. We therefore analyzed relationships of adjacency and crossing between cerebral fiber pathways in four nonhuman primate species and in humans by using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging. The cerebral fiber pathways formed a rectilinear three-dimensional grid continuous with the three principal axes of development. Cortico-cortical pathways formed parallel sheets of interwoven paths in the longitudinal and medio-lateral axes, in which major pathways were local condensations. Cross-species homology was strong and showed emergence of complex gyral connectivity by continuous elaboration of this grid structure. This architecture naturally supports functional spatio-temporal coherence, developmental path-finding, and incremental rewiring with correlated adaptation of structure and function in cerebral plasticity and evolution.
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