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. 2006 Dec 19;103(51):19219-20.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609523103. Epub 2006 Dec 11.

Small worlds inside big brains

Olaf Sporns  1 , Christopher J Honey
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Small worlds inside big brains

Olaf Sporns et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Relationship of structural to functional connectivity networks. We built a demonstration model consisting of a set of 1,600 modeled neural mean field units arranged on a sphere and engaging in noise-driven spontaneous activity. (A) The anatomical connection pattern, shown only for a few randomly selected neural units, consists of a mix of mostly local (clustered) connections and a few connections made over longer distances. (B) A snapshot and an EEG-like recording trace of the dynamical neuronal activity pattern. Neuronal dynamics is characterized by complex spatial and temporal structure across multiple scales [supporting information (SI) Movie 1]. (C) A functional connectivity network obtained from a thresholded correlation matrix calculated from the dynamics shown in B. In this example, both structural and functional connectivity patterns exhibit small-world attributes.
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