Toward computational neuroconstructivism: a framework for developmental systems neuroscience

DE Astle, MH Johnson, D Akarca - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Brain development is underpinned by complex interactions between neural assemblies,
driving structural and functional change. This neuroconstructivism (the notion that neural …

Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks reveal widespread links between structural and functional neuroscience findings

J Achterberg, D Akarca, DJ Strouse, J Duncan… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Brain networks exist within the confines of resource limitations. As a result, a brain network
must overcome the metabolic costs of growing and sustaining the network within its physical …

[HTML][HTML] Computational models of typical and atypical brain network development

PE Vértes - Biological Psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, the organization of brain networks at both micro-and macroscales has
become a key focus of neuroscientific inquiry. This has revealed fundamental features of …

[HTML][HTML] Parameter estimation for connectome generative models: Accuracy, reliability, and a fast parameter fitting method

Y Liu, C Seguin, S Mansour, S Oldham, R Betzel… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Generative models of the human connectome enable in silico generation of brain networks
based on probabilistic wiring rules. These wiring rules are governed by a small number of …

Homophilic wiring principles underpin neuronal network topology in vitro

D Akarca, AWE Dunn, PJ Hornauer, S Ronchi… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Economic efficiency has been a popular explanation for how networks self-organize within
the developing nervous system. However, the precise nature of the economic negotiations …

Where you live matters: Visualizing environmental effects on reading attainment

JA Shero, F Erbeli, ZE Reed… - Journal of Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The way in which socioeconomic status (SES) moderates the etiology of
reading attainment has been explored many times, with past work often finding that genetic …

A weighted generative model of the human connectome

D Akarca, S Schiavi, J Achterberg, S Genc, D Jones… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Probabilistic generative network models have offered an exciting window into the constraints
governing the human connectome's organization. In particular, they have highlighted the …

Computational principles of brain network development

D Akarca - 2023 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Brain development can be viewed through many lenses and studied at many scales.
However, multiple theoretical perspectives have argued that brain organisation develops via …

Reality Resists Classification: A Transdiagnostic, Network-Based Approach to Behavioural and Neural Variation in Childhood

N Zdorovtsova - 2024 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Childhood development is shaped, and characterised, by a variety of interacting processes
that encompass biological and environmental phenomena. Key developmental outcomes …