Josh Chen's Brain Talk 03: Small World

My name is Josh Chen. Today I'm gonna tell you a special property of human brain network. It's called small world property. In social network, a small world means any strangers can be connected by just a few introductions from a friend of a friend. It turned out the neuron network in human brain has a similar structure. One neuron can always reach another neuron by a small number of intermedial connections, no matter how far away anatomically.

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From: Jingyun Chen

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