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Shaping brain structure: Genetic and phylogenetic axes of macroscale organization of cortical thickness

Sofie L. Valk, Ting Xu, Daniel S. Margulies and 8 more

Science Advances · 2020 · CC BY

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb3417

Abstract

Functional and evolutionary patterning converges at the level of macroscale cortical structural organization.

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