title: Architecture of the cerebral cortical association connectome underlying cognition.
abstract: Cognition presumably emerges from neural activity in the network of association connections between cortical regions that is modulated by inputs from sensory and state systems and directs voluntary behavior by outputs to the motor system. To reveal global architectural features of the cortical association connectome, network analysis was performed on >16,000 reports of histologically defined axonal connections between cortical regions in rat. The network analysis reveals an organization into four asymmetrically interconnected modules involving the entire cortex in a topographic and topologic core-shell arrangement. There is also a topographically continuous U-shaped band of cortical areas that are highly connected with each other as well as with the rest of the cortex extending through all four modules, with the temporal pole of this band (entorhinal area) having the most cortical association connections of all. These results provide a starting point for compiling a mammalian nervous system connectome that could ultimately reveal novel correlations between genome-wide association studies and connectome-wide association studies, leading to new insights into the cellular architecture supporting cognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; and.
authors.forename: Mihail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bota
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405.
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sporns
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089; and lswanson@usc.edu.
authors.forename: Larry W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Swanson
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D063132:Connectome; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats
keywords: cerebral cortex; connectomics; mammal; network analysis; neural connections
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