CYCLES IN BRAIN Kaushik Majumdar Systems Science and Informatics Unit ISI, Bangalore Centre
Talking and Understanding: Broca’s Area
Talking and Understanding: Wernicke’s Area
Cortical Interconnections
Functional Areas
Sensory Processing: Vision
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing Engel et al., Nat. Rev. Neurosci., Oct 2001 Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
Feed Forward and Feed Back Connections Jantzen et al., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009 Feed Forward and Feed Back Connections
Thalamo-Cortical Loops and Cortico-Cortical Loops
Schematic Thalamo-Cortical Connections Mumford, Biological Cybernetics, 65: 135 – 145, 1991. Schematic Thalamo-Cortical Connections
Thalamus as Active Black Board Mumford, Biological Cybernetics, 65: 135 – 145, 1991. Thalamus as Active Black Board Process 1 Process 2 Process 4 Process 3 Shared Memory
Cortico-Cortical Pathways by Layer Mumford, Biological Cybernetics, 66: 241 – 251, 1992. Cortico-Cortical Pathways by Layer A B
How to find the loops? Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) a) Granger causality b) Diffusion tensor imaging Mathematical modeling
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
T1 and T2 Time
MRI (cont)
MRI (summarized) Grey matter White matter
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI) Wandell & Dougherty, SPIE Vol. 6057, 605701, 2006. www.csulb.edu/~cwallis/482/fmri/fmri.html Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI) x → y or y → x y x
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Granger_causality Granger Causality
3D Fiber Tracts of Human Brain C. Lenglet, PhD Thesis, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, 2006. 3D Fiber Tracts of Human Brain
Probabilistic Estimation of Loops Majumdar, Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2(1), 2008. Probabilistic Estimation of Loops Probability in each direction is 1/6. Z6 -Y -X 5 4 3 2 1 +X Probability of a cortical path to loop around is 0.2782. +Y
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