Was it something that neuroscientists, with their emphasis on individual brains and cells, resisted?
It's important to realize that intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual brains.
Similarly, while mental disorders are undoubtedly manifested in neurobiological processes, we need to move beyond a focus on isolated individual brains in addressing them, begin to understand – and research – the city as a "neurosocial" space and to look at how urban life penetrates deep into the mental and neural life of city dwellers.
The same evolutionary force that produced sophisticated individual brains for human beings will produce more sophisticated "team brains" for companies.
Similarly, one may use such a visual representation to better detect differences in clinical cohorts, or to longitudinally track connectivity changes over time in individual brains.
The accelerating increase in intelligence will not just be in individual brains, but also in the social, political and economic systems that link those brains together.
In this study, we derive two new measures, which we term functional density map and edge map, and demonstrate their usefulness in characterizing the function of individual brains.
It is not the case that in collective intentionality, individual brains are integrated in a Borg-like manner to form a collective super-brain.
These changes are interesting in the scope of brain exploration, but more importantly, could lead to a greater distinction of connectivity abnormalities in clinical cohorts or longitudinal changes in individual brains.
ANOVA tests indicated that the current protocol is able to provide consistent DTI data of individual brains (p > 0.25), and distinguish difference of diffusion indices between white matter structures (p < 0.001).
In addition to the errors introduced by slicing, BigBrain doesn't capture the considerable variability between individual brains, notes neuroscientist John Mazziotta of the University of California, Los Angeles, who wasn't involved in the research.
