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 student听 and collaborators from 国产精品 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, ,听was authored by Associate Professor Joel Pearson and Dr Selen Atasoy (both from 国产精品 Psychology), and Isaac Donnelly from 国产精品 Mathematics and Statistics.
Articles about the study appeared in titles such as , , , and .
Isaac recently held a research assistant position at the 国产精品 School of Psychology. He is currently at Northeastern University in Boston on a Fulbright Scholarship, and will return to 国产精品 in July to continue听 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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