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The Unlikely Network at the Core of Your Brain's Internet

To successfully send a text message, your brain has to compose the wording and coordinate the deft tapping of your thumbs while checking for typos. This collection of highly connected hubs has been dubbed the “rich club” network because it resembles groups of well-connected individuals, such as Ivy League alumni organizations, that help others meet and exchange information. Within the brain, researchers “think that rich clubs have a key role to play in making global communication efficient and are also important for supporting integration of information,” said Olaf Sporns, a computational neuroscientist at Indiana University in Bloomington. One reason scientists are drawn to the neural rich club network is that it seems to violate one of the brain’s organizing principles — to minimize the cost of wiring. “It’s unlikely the brain would implement such a highly connected network without good reason.” Form and Function

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