Dr. David Kleinfeld, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego. According to the New York Times, experts believe that scientists will discover that the newly identified areas contain multiple smaller regions functioning together. According to Dr. David C. Van Essen, a principal investigator with the Human Connectome Project at Washington University Medical School, “We shouldn’t expect miracles and easy answers, but we’re positioned to accelerate progress.”
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Matthew Glasser, Ph.D., and David Van Essen, Ph.D., Washington University