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Map of a human brain: its parts, its connections, its emotions

The real shape of an average human brain (fsaverage5 surface), its 82 regions at their real positions, and the connections measured between them in 207 adults (Human Connectome Project). Visit a part of the brain, or pick an emotion: what studies reported lights up, and impulses travel along the measured connections. It shows what was measured in people; it feels nothing.
Loading the real brain surface (about 0.6 MB)…
. Drag to turn · wheel or two fingers to zoom · tap a glowing dot to walk its connections. Coloured dots: the real brain surface, one colour per part (each surface point takes the part of the nearest region centre: our approximation). Curves: measured connections of what is lit, in the colour of the part they reach (brighter = stronger; drawn curved by us). Moving lights: impulses, by our rule. Dashed gold: known pathways with no measured strength.