{"id":1129,"date":"2023-12-04T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2024-01-09T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T01:43:13","slug":"the-rich-club-of-networks-in-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/2023\/12\/04\/the-rich-club-of-networks-in-the-human-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201crich club\u201d of networks in the human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What is known as the \u201crich club\u201d in the human brain consists of densely interconnected regions of neurons that show little plasticity. The activity of these networks is highly stable <\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and the regions involved are rapidly informed of other neuronal events that occur throughout the brain <\/a><\/strong><\/span>. The neurons in this \u201crich club\u201d may be regarded as one end of a continuum in terms of their low plasticity and the many connections that they make with other parts of the brain. The other end of the continuum consists of neurons that show a high degree of plasticity but are connected to relatively few other neurons and have a far lower level of activity. Along this continuum, just about every other possible combination of these traits can be found. It has been estimated, however, that the \u201crich club\u201d, while accounting for only about 20% of the total population of neurons in the human brain , also accounts for nearly 50% of its total activity <\/a><\/span><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

The characteristics of the neurons that form the \u201crich club\u201d may well contribute to the human ability to take action quickly in any new situation by drawing analogies with similar situations in which a behavioural response of the same kind has usually proven effective. These internal models (sometimes called <i models in the literature) may be \u201chard-wired\u201d\u2014already in place when we are born or formed very early in our lives\u2014because they represent regular patterns in the world that are almost universal: for example, if you let go of an object in thin air, it falls downward, and if you hide an object behind a screen, the object will still be there when you take the screen away.<\/a><\/p>\n

A young child\u2019s brain has myriad neuronal pathways that it will gradually match up with events in the outside world. Fairly soon, nothing in that world will ever be completely new to that brain, because it will be able to draw analogies between any new situation and earlier ones that it has already internalized in its mental models, and then use its \u201crich club\u201c to switch to whichever functional network best responds to the needs of the new situation.
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What is known as the \u201crich club\u201d in the human brain consists of densely interconnected regions of neurons that show little plasticity. The activity of these networks is highly stable , and the regions involved are rapidly informed of other neuronal events that occur throughout the brain . The neurons in this \u201crich club\u201d may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}