A wiring diagram of the brain [News]

Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections. In early March, an unusual 2 terabytes of data hit the Web: the first batch of images from a massively ambitious brainmapping effort called the Human Connectome Project. Thousands of images showed the brains of 68 healthy volunteers, with different regions glowing in bright jewel tones. These data, freely available for download via the project's website, give neuroscientists unprecedented insights into which parts of the brain act in concert to do something as seemingly simple as recognizing a face.