New paper: Ernst Schwartz, Karl-Heinz Nenning, Katja Heuer, Nathan Jeffery, Ornella C. Bertrand, Roberto Toro, Gregor Kasprian, Daniela Prayer, Georg Langs. Evolution of Cortical Geometry and its Link to Function, Behaviour and Ecology. in Nature Communications. [paper, code&data]
--> Data are available on github: a joint model of cerebral cortices of 90 species and common ancestors
Evolution of the cerebral cortex
We are studying brain evolution, the characteristics of brain architecture across species, and the factors that shape individual brain anatomy and function. We are curious about the mechanisms that led to the shape, function, and developmental patterns in the human brain. To this end we are developing methods to identify common functional connectivity structures across species (Xu et al. 2020), to map functional networks across large populations (Nenning et al. 2020), or to investigate which aspects of our brain are determined by genes or the environment (Burger et al. 2022).
Publications
- Ting Xu, Karl-Heinz Nenning, Ernst Schwartz, Seok-Jun Hong, Joshua T Vogelstein, Alexandros Goulas, Damien A Fair, Charles E Schroeder, Daniel S Margulies, Jonny Smallwood, Michael P Milham, Georg Langs: Cross-species functional alignment reveals evolutionary hierarchy within the connectome. NeuroImage (2020), best NeuroImage-paper in 2020
- Bianca Burger, Karl-Heinz Nenning, Ernst Schwartz, Daniel S Margulies, Alexandros Goulas, Hesheng Liu, Simon Neubauer, Justin Dauwels, Daniela Prayer, Georg Langs: Disentangling cortical functional connectivity strength and topography reveals divergent roles of genes and environment. NeuroImage (2022)
- Karl-Heinz Nenning, Ting Xu, Ernst Schwartz, Jesus Arroyo, Adelheid Woehrer, Alexandre R Franco, Joshua T Vogelstein, Daniel S Margulies, Hesheng Liu, Jonathan Smallwood, Michael P Milham, Georg Langs: Joint embedding: A scalable alignment to compare individuals in a connectivity space. NeuroImage (2020)
Sources for pictures in the header from phylopic.org: individual sources, Images: MUW/Ernst Schwartz