The morphospace of the brain-cognition organisation

Valentina Pacella (), Victor Nozais, Lia Talozzi, Majd Abdallah, Demian Wassermann, Stephanie J. Forkel and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten ()
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Valentina Pacella: Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS
Victor Nozais: University of Bordeaux
Lia Talozzi: University of Bordeaux
Majd Abdallah: University of Bordeaux
Demian Wassermann: 1 Rue Honoré d’Estienne d’Orves
Stephanie J. Forkel: Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory
Michel Thiebaut de Schotten: University of Bordeaux

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Over the past three decades, functional neuroimaging has amassed abundant evidence of the intricate interplay between brain structure and function. However, the potential anatomical and experimental overlap, independence, granularity, and gaps between functions remain poorly understood. Here, we show the latent structure of the current brain-cognition knowledge and its organisation. Our approach utilises the most comprehensive meta-analytic fMRI database (Neurosynth) to compute a three-dimensional embedding space–morphospace capturing the relationship between brain functions as we currently understand them. The space structure enables us to statistically test the relationship between functions expressed as the degree to which the characteristics of each functional map can be anticipated based on its similarities with others–the predictability index. The morphospace can also predict the activation pattern of new, unseen functions and decode thoughts and inner states during movie watching. The framework defined by the morphospace will spur the investigation of novel functions and guide the exploration of the fabric of human cognition.

Date: 2024
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