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Mouse visual cortex wiring diagram and functional map offers insight into human brain complexity and cognition.

In all, they collected data that covers about 3.4 miles (5.4 kilometers) of neuronal wiring in a part of the brain that ...

WASHINGTON: Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to ...

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A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a ...

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