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connectivity

connectivity

30 6.9
How different parts of the brain link and work together, often shown by brain scans
  • noun
  • /kəˌnɛkˈtɪvɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : conectividad funcional
  • River flow enhances the ecohydrological connectivity of the landscape, spreading sediments, nutrients, propagules, and waterborne disease through waterways.
  • brain connectivity
  • functional connectivity
  • increased connectivity

Increase connectivity lasts for how long and how long are the structural brain changes occurring?

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Examples

  • Indicators of civic health are being examined by scholars regarding decreased connectivity and social capital in communities.

    Academic text (2016)
  • In particular, preferred and favorite music elicited increased connectivity to the frontal part of the brain.

    Academic text (2015)
  • OK, Anyway, So what do we know about the connectivity of these regions?

  • So over millions of years our brain size has increased, our connectivity has increased, our blood flow has increased.

  • Streamline clustering is used to study brain connectivity and contribute to a better understanding of the human brain.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The study by Bijsterbosch and colleagues addresses the important question of what aspect of functional connectivity varies across individuals.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Retaining the strongest connections between voxels throughout the entire brain provided a connectivity map of the brain during real-time music listening.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Thus, the main premise of this study, that spatiotemporal interactions in the forming cortex determine connectivity, has long been under consideration.

    Academic text (2018)
  • As for land preservation, Burquez laments that Sonoran preserves lack connectivity and do not exist in areas of highest biodiversity.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The fMRI results revealed a significant increase in connectivity between the visual and auditory regions of the brain.

Synonyms

connectedness
vsconnectivity
8 4.8

How people and things are joined and relate to each other

applies to patterns of functional brain communication measured by neuroimaging
interconnection
vsconnectivity
7 4.4

A group of things linked so they work together and change each other

is specific to functional links between brain regions measured by imaging
interconnectedness
vsconnectivity
6 6.8

The way things are linked and affect each other

focuses on synchronized brain activity and its measurement in neuroscience

Antonyms

172 3.7

A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally

Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet

How Connected

connectome
  • Specialized
1 9.9
connectivity
  • Specialized
30 6.9

Surface Forms

connectivity singular

Morphology

connectivity = connect (transparent) = connect + ivity

The neuroscience sense is a domain-specific application of 'the state/degree of being connected', which is still directly derived from 'connect' plus the noun-forming suffix.

Etymology

Connectivity comes from the parts con- meaning 'together' and nect meaning 'bind', like the words connect and connection, so it points to things being joined. In the brain, connectivity means how well different areas are linked so they can 'talk' and share signals, like roads that let people travel between towns.