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Functional Mapping with Simultaneous MEG and EEG
Published on: June 14, 2010
The brain activity map project and the challenge of functional connectomics
A Paul Alivisatos1, Miyoung Chun, George M Church
1Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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The function of neural circuits is an emergent property that arises from the coordinated activity of large numbers of neurons. To capture this, we propose launching a large-scale, international public effort, the Brain Activity Map Project, aimed at reconstructing the full record of neural activity across complete neural circuits. This technological challenge could prove to be an invaluable step toward understanding fundamental and pathological brain processes.
