2017-08-22

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What does your brain look like when it's broken down mathematically? And what can this tell us? This is Part 1 in our Your Brain as Math mini-series.

Check out Part 2 here: /youtube/video/rlI1KOo1gp4

Check out Part 3 here: /youtube/video/akgU8nRNIp0

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In order to dive deeper into an exciting topic, we're mixing up the format. Over the next three days, we’ll spend the next three episodes exploring an incredible application of seemingly purely-abstract mathematics: how algebraic topology can help us decode the connections among neurons in our brains, to help us understand their function.

Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards

Produced by Rusty Ward

Graphics by Ray Lux

Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow

Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

Resources:

Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full

The Blue Brain Project

http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/barcodes.pdf

Network Neuroscience

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v20/n3/full/nn.4502.html

Algebraic Topology

https://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html

Special thanks to Kathryn Hess and Florian Frick!

Comments answered by Kelsey:

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