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Metrics for Cortical Map Organization and Lateralization

✍ Scribed by S.A. Alvarez; S. Levitan; J.A. Reggia

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 325 KB
Volume: 60
Category: Article
ISSN: 1522-9602
DOI: 10.1006/bulm.1997.0002

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✦ Synopsis

Cerebral lateralization refers to the poorly understood fact that some functions are better controlled by one side of the brain than the other (e.g. handedness, language). Of particular concern here are the asymmetries apparent in cortical topographic maps that can be demonstrated electrophysiologically in mirror-image locations of the cerebral cortex. In spite of great interest in issues surrounding cerebral lateralization, methods for measuring the degree of organization and asymmetry in cortical maps are currently quite limited. In this paper, several measures are developed and used to assess the degree of organization, lateralization, and mirror symmetry in topographic map formation. These measures correct for large constant displacements as well as curving of maps. The behavior of the measures is tested on several topographic maps obtained by self-organization of an initially random artificial neural network model of a bihemispheric brain, and the results are compared with subjective assessments made by humans.

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