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CIR | Evolution

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

Sources for pictures in the header from phylopic.org: individual sources, Images: MUW/Ernst Schwartz