Study by PhD student Isaac Donnelly & collaborators on patterns of brain function features in the media
Published on the 18 Feb 2016
Research undertaken by PhD studentÌý and collaborators from ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Psychology has been widely covered across science media.
The study, published in , has revealed that complex human brain activity is driven by the same simple universal rule of nature which can explain other phenomena, such as the stripes on tigers or the spots on a leopard.
Researchers identified a connection between the distinctive patterns of brain function that transpire at rest, and the physical structure of people's brains.
The study, ,Ìýwas authored by Associate Professor Joel Pearson and Dr Selen Atasoy (both from ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Psychology), and Isaac Donnelly from ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Mathematics and Statistics.
Articles about the study appeared in titles such as , , , and .
Isaac recently held a research assistant position at the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ School of Psychology. He is currently at Northeastern University in Boston on a Fulbright Scholarship, and will return to ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ in July to continueÌý with Prof. Bruce Henry and Dr. Chris Angstmann, with whom he has been investigating anomalous diffusion, the effect of external forcing and pattern formation on networks.
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