Modelling Brain Areas
- The brain does not need to be modelled at the neural level.
- You could break neurons (and synapses etc.) down into smaller
components, or you could have a coarser model.
- A non-computational model is to break the cortex up into areas. One
of these divisions is Brodmann Areas.
- Similarly, the brain can be broken up into its
Connectome.
Tractography
is the current method to derive the connectome.
- Of course there
is variance from person to person, and within a person over time.
It is quite slowly varying, and not much in the way of neural growth.
- You can also model the brain by boxes, though this leaves me cold.
- Mean Field Theory is a way of modelling activity in the brain.
- This can relate to fMRI, and can be used to account for this data.
- These things tend to be cortical, but do note that a lot (perhaps most)
of the activity is sub-cortical.
