John Murray Profile picture
Computational Neuroscientist at Yale
Aug 6, 2018 9 tweets 4 min read
Our latest paper, out today @NatureNeuro: "Hierarchy of transcriptomic specialization across human cortex captured by structural neuroimaging topography".
rdcu.be/36Dg Big Q: How are cortical areas specialized across the human brain?

An important axis relates to sensory-association cortical hierarchy. Anatomical hierarchy is conventionally measured by invasive tract-tracing, so inaccessible for human cortex. What's a usable proxy measure?