One of the most promising avenues for compiling connectivity data originates from the notion that individual brain regions maintain individual connectivity profiles; the functional repertoire of a cortical area ("the functional fingerprint") is closely related to its anatomical connections ("the connectional fingerprint") and, hence, a segregated cortical area may be characterized by a highly c...

In this paper, we study deployment patterns to achieve full coverage and -connectivity under different ratios of the sensor communication range (denoted by ) to the sensing range (denoted by ) for homogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In particular, we propose new patterns for 3and 5-connectivity. We also discover that there exists a hexagon-based universally elemental pattern that can g...

Rich-club, assortativity and clustering coefficients are frequently used measures to estimate topological properties of complex networks. Here we find that the connectivity among a very small portion of the richest nodes can dominate the assortativity and clustering coefficients of a large network, which reveals that the rich-club connectivity is leveraged throughout the network. Our study sugg...

Adequate shelter has always been one of man’s basic needs; it is a significant component for human survival and a useful barometer for gauging societal development. As a unit of the environment, it has a profound influence on the health, efficiency, social behavior, satisfaction, productivity, and general wellbeing of the individual and the entire community. However, one of the critical challen...

The anatomical connectivity and intrinsic properties of entorhinal cortical neurons give rise to ordered patterns of ensemble activity. How entorhinal ensembles form, interact, and accomplish emergent processes such as memory formation is not well-understood. We lack sufficient understanding of how neuronal ensembles in general can function transiently and distinctively from other neuronal ense...

The normal human brain is characterized by a pattern of gross anatomical asymmetry. This pattern, known as the "torque", is associated with a sexual dimorphism: The male brain tends to be more asymmetric than that of the female. This fact, along with well-known sex differences in brain development (faster in females) and onset of psychosis (earlier with worse outcome in males), has led to the t...

In this thesis a model of the primary visual cortex (V1) is presented. The centerpiece of this model is an abstract hypercolumn model, derived from the Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network (BCPNN). This model functions as a building block of the proposed laminar V1 model, which consists of layer 4 and 2/3 components. The V1 model is developed during exposure to visual input using the ...