Parietal Nodes in Large-Scale Networks

piano, classical, rap · 3:56

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Picture two compasses steering where your eyes will land
Dorsal stream runs IPS, superior parietal, FEF in command
That's goal-directed searching, you picked the target, you're the aim
But something flickers unannounced, off to the side, unclaimed
Ventral network answers — TPJ and frontal cortex pounce
Right hemisphere mostly, breaking focus, forcing a bounce

[Chorus]
Dorsal plots the path you chose, ventral rings alarm for the unknown
Corbetta and Shulman drew the switch back in 2002, now it's carved in bone
IPS and SPL steer the ship, TPJ taps the brake
Two networks trading the wheel — attention's give and take

[Verse 2]
Frontoparietal control, Vincent and Dosenbach drew the frame
IPL shaking hands with lateral prefrontal, running the game
Not fixed wiring — think of it as rented office space
Cole's sixty-four tasks proved the hubs rearrange their face
Flexible connectivity, same address, different costume each time
Switching partners task to task, parietal keeping the rhyme

[Chorus]
Dorsal plots the path you chose, ventral rings alarm for the unknown
Corbetta and Shulman drew the switch back in 2002, now it's carved in bone
IPS and SPL steer the ship, TPJ taps the brake
Two networks trading the wheel — attention's give and take

[Verse 3]
Yeo carved a thousand brains into seven, then seventeen domains
Parietal scattered thin — dorsal, control, default remains
Somatomotor strip and ventral attention share the lobe's estate
Margulies drew a gradient, sensory anchored at one gate
Angular gyrus and posterior cingulate crown the transmodal rim
Farthest from the senses, where abstraction grows its limb

[Verse 4]
Van den Heuvel found a rich club — superior parietal, precuneus shake hands
Trading heavier traffic than the rest of the networked lands
Buckner noticed something darker: hubs that labor overtime
Gather amyloid plaques early, default's backbone first in line

[Bridge]
Zoom in closer — Braga, Buckner, Gordon found it's finer than it seems
Averaged brains just blur the picture, single scans reveal the seams
Interdigitated ribbons woven through the IPL and precuneal skin
Your parietal map is yours alone — precision lets us in

[Chorus]
Dorsal plots the path you chose, ventral rings alarm for the unknown
Corbetta and Shulman drew the switch back in 2002, now it's carved in bone
IPS and SPL steer the ship, TPJ taps the brake
Two networks trading the wheel — attention's give and take

[Outro]
Hubs reconfigure, gradients climb, rich clubs hum beneath the skin
Seven networks, one parietal home — precision lets the whole truth in

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