Your Mind Is Eight-Dimensional - Your Brain as Math Part 3 | Infinite Series

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How Algebraic topology can help us unlock the connection between neurological structure and function. This is Part 3 in our Your Brain as Math mini-series.
Check out Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0M3srBoTkY
Check out Part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4

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Previous Episode
Simplicial Complexes - Your Brain as Math - Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlI1KOo1gp4

Last episode, we learned that your brain can be modeled as a simplicial complex. And algebraic topology can tell us the Betti numbers of that simplicial complex. Why is that helpful? Let’s find out.

Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
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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

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