Figure 7.
Resilience of the human brain functional network (rightcolumn) compared with random (left column) and scale-free (middle column) networks. Top row, Size of the largest connected cluster in the network (scaled to maximum; y-axis) versus the proportion of total nodes eliminated (x-axis) by random error (dashed line) or targeted attack (solid line). Bottom row, Global mean path length (Lnet; y-axis) versus the proportion of total nodes eliminated (x-axis) by random error (dashed line) or targeted attack (solid line). The size of the largest connected cluster in the brain functional network is more resilient to targeted attack and about equally resilient to random error compared with the scale-free network.