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Different areas in the brain are specialized for different functions, and complex cognitive tasks are implemented by their cooperation. Recently, cortico-cortical network structures have been analyzed based on graph theory, but further details of structures of neuron-level networks that are essential for implementing cognitive functions are still unclear. In this study, under a hypothesis of heritable topographical projections between cortical areas, the ability to form neuron-level pathways with topographical projection was evaluated by computer simulations. In the results, a segmented and compressed projection was found to produce a wider variety of neuronal pathways through cortical areas in comparison to other projection structures. This suggests that topographic neuronal projection is a basis for anatomically neuron-level pathways that relay signals to a set of specific cortical areas.
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Sato, N. (2012). Variety of Cortical Pathways Formed by Topographic Neural Projection: A Computational Study. In: Huang, T., Zeng, Z., Li, C., Leung, C.S. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7664. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34481-7_22
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