Neural Wiring Optimization

Cherniak, Christopher; Mokhtarzada, Zekeria; Rodriguez‐Esteban, Raul

doi:10.1016/b0-12-370878-8/00100-2

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“…The existence of these pervasive costs motivated early work to postulate that wiring minimization is a fundamental driver of connection formation. Consistent with this hypothesis, the connectomes of multiple species are predominantly comprised of wires extending over markedly short distances [13][14][15][16][17][18][19], and this observation holds across different methods of data collection [16,18,19].…”

Section: Physical Constraints On Network Topology and Geometrymentioning

confidence: 59%

Spatial Embedding Imposes Constraints on Neuronal Network Architectures

Stiso

Bassett

2018

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

106

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Section: Physical Constraints On Network Topology and Geometrymentioning

confidence: 59%

Spatial Embedding Imposes Constraints on Neuronal Network Architectures

Stiso

Bassett

2018

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

106

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“…To operate effi ciently within these constraints, nature has optimized the structure and function of these processing units with design principles similar to those used in electronic devices and communication networks. In fact, the basic structural uniformity of the cerebral cortex suggests that there are general architectural principles governing its growth and evolutionary development (Cherniak 1995(Cherniak , 2012Hofman 1996Hofman , 2001aHofman , 2007Rakic 2009 ;Bullmore and Sporns 2012 ).…”

Section: Design Principles Of Neural Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind

Hofman¹

2014

Handbook of Intelligence

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“…The principle of neural wiring minimization [59] was used as a rationale for plotting the least-path sequence between simultaneous ERP activity electrodes/areas within same interval bin. Accordingly, the following restrictions were applied due to neuroanatomical boundaries: neural activation from occipital electrodes (O1, Oz, O2) could only move forward or laterally, neural activation from frontal electrodes (F3, Fz, F4) could only move backward or laterally.…”

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Evaluating Preschool Visual Attentional Selective-Set: Preliminary ERP Modeling and Simulation of Target Enhancement Homology

2020

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We reanalyzed, modeled and simulated Event-Related Potential (ERP) data from 13 healthy children (Mean age = 5.12, Standard Deviation = 0.75) during a computerized visual sustained target detection task. Extending an ERP-based ACT–R (Adaptive Control of Thought–Rational) neurocognitive modeling approach, we tested whether visual sustained selective-set attention in preschool children involves the enhancement of neural response to targets, and it shows key adult-like features (neurofunctional homology). Blinded automatic peaks analysis was conducted on vincentized binned grand ERP averages. Time-course and distribution of scalp activity were detailed through topographic mapping and paths analysis. Reaction times and accuracy were also measured. Adult Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based mapping using ACT–R dipole source modeling and electric-field spiking simulation provided very good fit with the actual ERP data (R2 > 0.70). In most electrodes, between 50 and 400 ms, ERPs concurrent with target presentation were enhanced relative to distractor, without manual response confounds. Triangulation of peak analysis, ACT–R modeling and simulation for the entire ERP epochs up to the moment of manual response (~700 ms, on average) suggested converging evidence of distinct but interacting processes of enhancement and planning for response release/inhibition, respectively. The latter involved functions and structures consistent with adult ERP activity which might correspond to a large-scale network, implicating Dorsal and Ventral Attentional Networks, corticostriatal loops, and subcortical hubs connected to prefrontal cortex top-down working memory executive control. Although preliminary, the present approach suggests novel directions for further tests and falsifiable hypotheses on the origins and development of visual selective attention and their ERP correlates.

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Neural Wiring Optimization

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Spatial Embedding Imposes Constraints on Neuronal Network Architectures

Spatial Embedding Imposes Constraints on Neuronal Network Architectures

Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind

Evaluating Preschool Visual Attentional Selective-Set: Preliminary ERP Modeling and Simulation of Target Enhancement Homology

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