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ArticleNetwork neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2026

The turbulent brain: Modeling vortex interactions for understanding human cognition.

Gustavo Deco, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Jianfeng Feng, Morten L Kringelbach

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Article in Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Gustavo DecoCenter for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine and Life Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Yonatan Sanz PerlCenter for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Medicine and Life Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Jianfeng FengInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Morten L KringelbachInternational Centre for Flourishing, Universities of Oxford (UK), Aarhus (Denmark), and Pompeu Fabra (Spain).

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human brain needs distributed, time-critical computation to efficiently solve complex problems. Turbulence provides such highly efficient spacetime information processing and transmission across widespread brain networks, yet we have been missing a mechanistic understanding of the interactions of turbulent vortices underlying human cognition. Here, we build the first whole-brain model of turbulent vortices as defined by the levels of local synchronization in brain signals quantifying turbulent interactions in vortex space. Specifically, using large-scale human neuroimaging data, we found that the interactions of turbulent vortices is an excellent framework for understanding cognition and brain computation. In particular, we show that when combined with connectome-based predictive modeling, this significantly predict the

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Brain dynamicsCognitionHopfOscillatorsTurbulenceWhole-brain modeling

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