ArticleeLife2022
Evolutionary shaping of human brain dynamics.
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- Mechanisms and interventions promoting healthy frontostriatal dynamics in obsessive-compulsive disorder.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Mapping the structure-function relationship along macroscale gradients in the human brain.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Aging Brain from a Lifespan Perspective.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Review
- The uniqueness of the human brain: a review.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2024Review
- From local properties to brain-wide organization: A review of intraregional temporal features in functional magnetic resonance imaging data.Human brain mapping · 2023Review
- Geometric constraints on human brain function.Nature · 2023Article
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Abstract
The human brain is distinct from those of other species in terms of size, organization, and connectivity. How do structural evolutionary differences drive patterns of neural activity enabling brain function? Here, we combine brain imaging and biophysical modeling to show that the anatomical wiring of the human brain distinctly shapes neural dynamics. This shaping is characterized by a narrower distribution of dynamic ranges across brain regions compared with that of chimpanzees, our closest living primate relatives. We find that such a narrow dynamic range distribution supports faster integration between regions, particularly in transmodal systems. Conversely, a broad dynamic range distribution as seen in chimpanzees facilitates brain processes relying more on neural interactions within specialized local brain systems. These findings suggest that human brain dynamics have evolved to foster rapid associative processes in service of complex cognitive functions and behavior.
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