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July 08, 2015

Researchers find the organization of the brain is perfect
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 08, 2015
Have you ever wondered why the human brain evolved the way it did? A new study by Northeastern physicist Dmitri Krioukov and his colleagues suggests an answer: to expedite the transfer of information from one brain region to another, enabling us to operate at peak capacity. The paper, published in Nature Communications, reveals that the structure of the human brain has an almost ideal network of connections--the links that permit information to travel from, say, the auditory cortex (responsible fo ... read more

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