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Node connection strength in Neurotree.
Each node in Neurotree can be characterized by its mean distance from every other node. Below is a histogram of mean distances for every node in the tree. (The final bin includes nodes that are not connected to the main tree.)

Mean inter-neuroscientist distance
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Mean distance
 Number of neuroscientists 

20 most tightly coupled nodes.
Below are the nodes with shortest mean distance. Note the strong bias toward systems and, in particular, the visual system. This suggests either that visual neuroscientists are highly promiscuous or that the population of the tree is biased by having been started in a vision lab. This question will only be answered with more data!

Rank Mean dist Name Institution Area Date
1 5.47 Torsten Wiesel (Info) Rockefeller University Visual system 2005-01-15
2 5.48 Terrence J Sejnowski (Info) Salk Institute Computation & Theory 2005-01-15
3 5.54 John Carew Eccles (Info) Australian National University Synapses 2005-01-16
4 5.65 Eric Kandel (Info) Columbia University Learning and Memory 2005-01-26
5 5.66 David C Van Essen (Info) Washington University, Saint Louis Visual system 2005-01-15
6 5.67 David Hubel (Info) Harvard University Vision 2005-01-16
7 5.79 Mark Konishi (Info) California Institute of Technology Auditory system 2005-01-15
8 5.8 John HR Maunsell (Info) Harvard University Medical School Vision 2005-01-15
9 5.81 Michael M Merzenich (Info) University of California, San Francisco Auditory system, plasticity 2005-01-29
10 5.81 John Nicholls (Info) SISSA Regeneration 2005-09-08
11 5.82 Richard A Andersen (Info) California Institute of Technology Systems 2005-01-15
12 5.82 Roger A Nicoll (Info) University of California, San Francisco Neurobiology 2005-08-03
13 5.84 Stephen Kuffler (Info) Harvard University Visual system 2005-01-15
14 5.86 Leslie Ungerleider (Info) National Institute of Mental Health Vision, cognition 2005-01-15
15 5.86 Mortimer Mishkin (Info) National Institute of Mental Health Systems 2005-01-15
16 5.86 Robert H Wurtz (Info) National Eye Institute Oculomotor system 2005-01-15
17 5.87 Tom Brown (Info) Yale University 2005-01-22
18 5.91 Karl H Pribram (Info) Stanford University Psychology, frontal lobe 2005-01-16
19 5.91 Lawrence C Katz (Info) Duke University Sensory systems 2005-02-18
20 5.92 Carla J Shatz (Info) Harvard University Medical School Development 2005-02-05
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