Brain Mapping

Brain mapping is the catch all term for all forms of neuroimaging. Any and all efforts to map spatially or biologically the various areas of the brain and their function.

Brain Mapping may be used at the species level – to map the general distribution of brain areas across individuals of a given species, or, it is employed at the individual level to precisely locate brain areas or even individual neurons in a patient prior to any investigative work.

Brain mapping is always the first step in any attempt to place neuroprosthetics into the brain, whether those be neural readers or stimulators. A highly precise placement is necessary for the electrodes in any neuroprosthetic, and brain mapping gives the ability to determine precisely where to place the electrodes, and an immediate diagnosis of the problem if an electrode has slipped.

See Also:

Neuroimaging, fMRI, Neuroprosthetic, Deep Brain Stimulator, Brain-Computer Interface, Neural Feedback

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.

Brain Mapping Neuroimaging

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A Golden Age of Brain Exploration
The Allen Brain Atlas, a project like never before: Literally a mapping of the human brain, an attempt to make connections between anatomical, genetic, and behavioral observations.

Mapping Intelligence to the Brain
Intelligence. We understand the concept, and the meaning of this word, but where in the brain, precisely, is intelligence actually located? Until recently, we did not really, have a clue. Now, using perhaps the most common sense approach possible, from neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have mapped the cognitive zones of the human brain.

Mapping the Mind

"Today a brain scan reveals our thoughts, moods, and memories as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person's brain registering a joke or experiencing a painful memory."

A Closer Look At Parallax Occlusion Mapping
An in-depth Gamedev article, containing step by step coding advice for implementing parallax occlusion mapping to textures, such that the simulated heights can even self-occlude.

Mapping cyberspace

This book is an attempt to cross-reference the techniques of mapping and charting the physical world, with attempts to chart cyberspace. All of cyberspace, from individual virtual environments, through to the world wide web, as a single cohesive whole, a second world of many worlds, for others to explore, possessing the maps to do so.

Sound in the Brain: An Orderly Orchestra of Synapses
Unlike the mapping of the sense of smell, which has odourant maps all over the olfactory bulb in no particular order, the sense of sound is remarkably well ordered. Synapses line up in an overlapping orchestra, with multiple redundancies, a study has found.

Brain Search
The brain is of profound importance. It is the place that houses our sense of self, our mind. It contains all of who and what we are. As technologies advance, Brain-Machine interfaces will become more and more sophisticated, and our understanding of the brain's functions will become ever-greater. This resource is a search engine specifically geared to finding all resources on the site that deal with developments / prosthetics for different brain regions.

Building a (Rodent) Brain
There has been a great deal of effort, in recent years towards the simulation of a fully working brain. The drive to understand the workings of the human brain has never been greater, with actual neuroprosthetic devices in existence to drive research. We are a long, long way from recreating a human brain with it's billions of neurons and trillions of connections, however that does not mean we are incapable of building a brain.

Brain blankets for BMI
An introduction to a new type of brain-machine interface, the subskull brain blanket.

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