Eloquent Structures in the Human Brain by Max Planck School of Cognition

This piece captures the structural wiring of the human brain responsible for language processing. It also uses the line density of novel 'spider-web' plots to convey the relative distribution of different language tasks across three lobes of the brain. A method to identify the white matter tract primarily responsible for each edge in a template cortical brain network was developed for this visualization. The data is derived from a study on fifteen temporal lobe epilepsy patients that underwent intracranial electrode implantation and bipolar cortical stimulation at the Yale School of Medicine. The short textual Methods section included with the piece provides more details on the data source and creative process.