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Applied to resting-state fMRI networks, the authors' methods show multiple distinct high-modularity partitions and strong correlations between two centrality measures.
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“We illustrate our methods by demonstrating degenerate high-modularity partitions and strong correlations between two complementary measures of centrality in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) networks from the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project, an open-access repository of resting-state functional MRI datasets.”
From Rubinov and Sporns (2011), arXiv 1103.5112. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 24 Oct 2026.
degenerate high-modularity partitions:
Several topologically different ways of dividing a network into subgroups that all score similarly well on the modularity measure.
centrality:
A measure of how influential or well connected an individual node, here a brain region, is within a network.
resting-state functional MRI:
Brain imaging that records activity while a person is at rest, used to see which regions' activity rises and falls together.
The paper describes methods for measuring modularity and centrality in dense, weighted functional brain networks, and illustrates them on resting-state fMRI data from an open repository.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 24 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim is the demonstration part of a methods paper: it shows the new tools running on real brain-scan data. Finding several different but equally good ways to divide a brain network into groups suggests that a single partition may not describe the network fully. Strong agreement between two centrality measures describes how the influence of brain regions relates across measures. If the methods work, comparisons of functional brain networks across people and conditions could rest on firmer ground.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 24 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors generalised modularity and centrality measures to fully connected, weighted networks, described how to find degenerate partitions, and introduced a null model. They illustrated this on resting-state fMRI networks from the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
The authors generalise measures of modularity and centrality to fully connected and weighted networks.
They describe how to detect degenerate high-modularity partitions and introduce a weighted-connectivity null model.
In resting-state fMRI networks, they report degenerate high-modularity partitions and strong correlations between two complementary centrality measures.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"We illustrate our methods by demonstrating degenerate high-modularity partitions and strong correlations between two complementary measures of centrality in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) networks from the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project, an open-access repository of resting-state functional MRI datasets."
(Rubinov et al., NeuroImage, 2011)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Applied to resting-state fMRI networks, the authors' methods show multiple distinct high-modularity partitions and strong correlations between two centrality measures.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if the Pearson correlation coefficient between the two complementary centrality measures computed on any resting‑state fMRI network from the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project using the authors’ methods is less than 0.5.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Mikail Rubinov and Olaf Sporns (2011), Weight-conserving characterization of complex functional brain networks, NeuroImage. Ecdysis, claim ext:369f6fa025309189. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:369f6fa025309189
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