CONNECTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does connectivity mean? 

• CONNECTIVITY (noun)
  The noun CONNECTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections

  Familiarity information: CONNECTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONNECTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("connectivity" is a kind of...):

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Derivation:

connective (connecting or tending to connect)

 Context examples 

Similar to DNA, specific brain systems and connectivity patterns are passed down from adults to their children.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is the first brain imaging study of two related individuals to investigate if and how babies’ interpersonal neural connectivity with their mothers is affected by the emotional quality of their social interaction.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

In the dominant eye, with greater connectivity to the brain, this spot was found to be round while in the other eye, it was asymmetrical.

(Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, Wikinews)

A type of graph that uses a focus node with other nodes arranged in concentric circles around the focus to illustrate the central node's degree of connectivity to the other nodes.

(Graph Radial Layout, NCI Thesaurus)

Utilizing a preterm sheep model, the team analyzed the response of fetal subplate neurons — cells that play a critical role in regulating preterm brain function and connectivity — to disturbances of brain oxygenation.

(Lack of Oxygen, Not Blood Flow, Delays Brain Maturation in Preterm Infants, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) team set out to banish this blurriness by using multiple, precisely aligned, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities to measure cortical architecture, activity, connectivity, and topography in a group of 210 healthy participants.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

Every person has a distinct pattern of functional brain connectivity known as a connectotype, or brain fingerprint.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They found that mums and babies tend to synchronise their brain waves – an effect known as interpersonal neural connectivity - particularly in the frequency of 6-9 hertz, the infant alpha range.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

Using two data sets of functional MRI brain scans from more than 350 adult and child siblings during resting state, Fair and colleagues applied an innovative technique to characterize functional connectivity and machine learning to successfully identify siblings based on their connectotype.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By looking at the qualities and structure of the interpersonal neural connectivity using a mathematical method of network analysis, the researchers could see how information flowed within each separate brain, and also how the two brains operated together as a network.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)