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SUBMITTER: Vertes PE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4150306 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vértes Petra E PE Alexander-Bloch Aaron A Bullmore Edward T ET
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20141001 1653
Rich clubs arise when nodes that are 'rich' in connections also form an elite, densely connected 'club'. In brain networks, rich clubs incur high physical connection costs but also appear to be especially valuable to brain function. However, little is known about the selection pressures that drive their formation. Here, we take two complementary approaches to this question: firstly we show, using generative modelling, that the emergence of rich clubs in large-scale human brain networks can be dr ...[more]