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How Algebraic topology can help us unlock the connection between neurological structure and function. This is Part 3 in our Your Brain as Math mini-series.
Check out Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=M0M3srBoTkY
Check out Part 2 here: youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4
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Previous Episode
Simplicial Complexes - Your Brain as Math - Part 2
youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4
Last episode, we learned that your brain can be modeled as a simplicial complex. And algebraic topology can tell us the Betti numbers of that simplicial complex. Why is that helpful? Let’s find out.
Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
Resources:
Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full
The Blue Brain Project:
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf
Network Neuroscience
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n3/full/nn.4502.html
Algebraic Topology
https://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
Special thanks to Kathryn Hess and Florian Frick!
Special thanks to Matthew O'Connor and Yana Chernobilsky who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level!
And thanks to Mauricio Pacheco who is supporting us at the Lemma level!
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: to.pbs.org/donateinfi
How Algebraic topology can help us unlock the connection between neurological structure and function. This is Part 3 in our Your Brain as Math mini-series.
Check out Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=M0M3srBoTkY
Check out Part 2 here: youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4
Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite
Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series
Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com
Previous Episode
Simplicial Complexes - Your Brain as Math - Part 2
youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4
Last episode, we learned that your brain can be modeled as a simplicial complex. And algebraic topology can tell us the Betti numbers of that simplicial complex. Why is that helpful? Let’s find out.
Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
Resources:
Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full
The Blue Brain Project:
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/
Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data
https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf
Network Neuroscience
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n3/full/nn.4502.html
Algebraic Topology
https://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html
Special thanks to Kathryn Hess and Florian Frick!
Special thanks to Matthew O'Connor and Yana Chernobilsky who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level!
And thanks to Mauricio Pacheco who is supporting us at the Lemma level!
