Basic principles drive self-organization of brain-like connectivity structure

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Main Authors: Tapia, Carlos Calvo, Slizneva, Valeriy A. Makarov, van Leeuwen, Cees
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Published: 2024
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author Tapia, Carlos Calvo
Slizneva, Valeriy A. Makarov
van Leeuwen, Cees
author_facet Tapia, Carlos Calvo
Slizneva, Valeriy A. Makarov
van Leeuwen, Cees
contents The brain can be considered as a system that dynamically optimizes the structure of anatomical connections based on the efficiency requirements of functional connectivity. To illustrate the power of this principle in organizing the complexity of brain architecture, we portray the functional connectivity as diffusion on the current network structure. The diffusion drives adaptive rewiring, resulting in changes to the network to enhance its efficiency. This dynamic evolution of the network structure generates, and thus explains, modular small-worlds with rich club effects, f eatures commonly observed in neural anatomy. Taking wiring length and propagating waves into account leads to the morphogenesis of more specific neural structures that are stalwarts of the detailed brain functional anatomy, such as parallelism, divergence, convergence, super-rings, and super-chains. By showing how such structures emerge, largely independently of their specific biological realization, we offer a new conjecture on how natural and artificial brain-like structures can be physically implemented.
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spellingShingle Basic principles drive self-organization of brain-like connectivity structure
Tapia, Carlos Calvo
Slizneva, Valeriy A. Makarov
van Leeuwen, Cees
Neurons and Cognition
Dynamical Systems
The brain can be considered as a system that dynamically optimizes the structure of anatomical connections based on the efficiency requirements of functional connectivity. To illustrate the power of this principle in organizing the complexity of brain architecture, we portray the functional connectivity as diffusion on the current network structure. The diffusion drives adaptive rewiring, resulting in changes to the network to enhance its efficiency. This dynamic evolution of the network structure generates, and thus explains, modular small-worlds with rich club effects, f eatures commonly observed in neural anatomy. Taking wiring length and propagating waves into account leads to the morphogenesis of more specific neural structures that are stalwarts of the detailed brain functional anatomy, such as parallelism, divergence, convergence, super-rings, and super-chains. By showing how such structures emerge, largely independently of their specific biological realization, we offer a new conjecture on how natural and artificial brain-like structures can be physically implemented.
title Basic principles drive self-organization of brain-like connectivity structure
topic Neurons and Cognition
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03529