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Special Issue: Update in Brain Parcellations and their Relationship to Function

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Over the past century and a half, human brain mapping consisted in pinning small functionally responsive areas within the brain. However, the real extent of these areas and their eventual overlap remains unknown. The challenge now facing neuroscience is to define boundaries for functionally responsive areas at the group and the individual level. Many approaches to parcellating the brain in areas with different features became available recently including post-mortem and in vivo architectonics, tractography-based connectivity, functional coactivation, and resting-state functional connectivity. What these methods really measure, however, and what conclusions can be drawn, are not yet fully clear to the scientific community. What precisely is being measured with these new tools for brain parcellation? What are the strengths and limitations of each method? What new findings have been revealed by the latest brain parcellation? A special issue on this subject matter will provide an excellent venue to introduce these topics. We’re looking forward to your original articles, updates, reviews or methodological articles to be submitted before 1st September 2023.

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  • Sarah Genon Sarah Genon  &

    Sarah Genon

    I lead the working group "Cognitive NeuroInformatics". I am interested in understanding the principles of brain organization and how these relate to behavioural functions in humans. In that context, I am particularly interested in the hippocampus. My work also generally addresses approaches and methods to relate neuroimaging data to behavioral data in humans. Additionally, I am concerned by ethics in neuroscience. This includes questioning general practices in neuroimaging analyses, but also diversity/inclusion, communications and dissemination and their impact on society.

  • Michel Thiebaut de Schotten Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

    Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

    With over ten years’ experience in neuropsychology and brain connectivity neuroimaging, I already established myself as a leader in the field with a solid scientific track record. I have contributed a number of innovative methods and fundamental new discoveries that have important implications for theories of brain structure and function. Hence my work spans the whole gamut from the development of novel methodology to experimental work to theory. Critically, I am dedicating significant effort toward the clinical translation of his neuroscience work through an open model approach that makes my tools freely accessible to the community.

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