Nudel has been digesting further the morphology of the brain via a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience: Structural and Functional Analyses of Human Cerebral Cortex Using a Surface-Based Atlas
Nudel’s interest in the neocortex was first piqued by Jeff Hawkins book One Thousand Brains
The Journal of Neuroscience paper describes a basis for determining the surface area of the brain using geometric methods to “unfold” the complex surface of the neocortex to create a map
Human cerebral cortex is a thin sheet of tissue that is extensively convoluted in order for a large surface area to fit within a restricted cranial volume.
The paper also describes several means for mapping the surface of the neocortex
Nudel’s own folded plane model provides a high level abstraction of the brain’s surface that correlates well with the surface area estimate provided in the Journal of Neuroscience paper:
Nudel - 1365 cm3
JoN - 1579 cm3
