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171 claims from 97 papers, showing 1–20 of 97

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri

   Biswal, Yetkin, Haughton and Hyde · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 1995

   Resting-brain MRI showed slow signal fluctuations that were strongly correlated across the motor cortex and other motor-related regions, which the authors read as functional connectivity.

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   1. Unchecked“Time courses of low frequency (<0.1 Hz) fluctuations in resting brain were observed to have a high degree of temporal correlation ( P < 10 −3 ) within these regions and also with time courses in several other regions that can be associated with motor functio…
   2. UncheckedFast MRI scans of resting human brains, taken every 250 ms, show signal fluctuations in each pixel that have a physiological origin.“An MRI time course of 512 echo‐planar images (EPI) in resting human brain obtained every 250 ms reveals fluctuations in signal intensity in each pixel that have a physiologic origin.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks

   Fox, Snyder, Vincent, Corbetta, Van Essen and Raichle · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005

   Using resting-state functional MRI, the study finds two opposed, widely spread brain networks whose spontaneous activity is correlated within each network and anticorrelated between them.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting human brains, one network is made of regions that usually activate during tasks and the other of regions that usually deactivate.“One network consists of regions routinely exhibiting task-related activations and the other of regions routinely exhibiting task-related deactivations.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

   Hafting, Fyhn, Molden, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2005

   The paper reports a map of space in the dorsocaudal medial entorhinal cortex, built from grid cells, which may be part of a path-integration-based map of the environment.

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   1. UncheckedGrid cells in a rat brain region fire whenever the animal is at any corner of a regular lattice of equilateral triangles covering its environment.“Its key unit is the 'grid cell', which is activated whenever the animal's position coincides with any vertex of a regular grid of equilateral triangles spanning the surface of the environment.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring grid cells in the entorhinal cortex share the same grid orientation and spacing, but their grids are offset from one another.“Grids of neighbouring cells share a common orientation and spacing, but their vertex locations (their phases) differ.”
   3. UncheckedIn the paper's recordings, grid cells in the entorhinal cortex have wider-spaced and larger firing fields further down the dorsal-to-ventral axis.“The spacing and size of individual fields increase from dorsal to ventral dMEC.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

   Yeo, Krienen, Sepulcre et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2011

   Using resting-state MRI from 1,000 people, the authors mapped large-scale networks across the human cerebral cortex and examined how they relate to sensory-motor pathways and association areas.

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   1. UncheckedIn the brain's sensory and motor areas, resting-state functional connectivity followed the topographic maps across neighbouring areas.“Within the sensory and motor cortices, functional connectivity followed topographic representations across adjacent areas.”
   2. UncheckedNeighbouring parietal and prefrontal regions have distinct connectivity, suggesting parallel, interdigitated circuits that still show some interaction.“Distinct connectivity profiles of neighboring regions suggest they participate in distributed networks that, while showing evidence for interactions, are embedded within largely parallel, interdigitated circuits.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Brain's Default Network

   Buckner, Andrews‐Hanna and Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

   A review of thirty years of brain imaging work, arguing the default network is a distinct brain system for internal thought, made up of interacting subsystems, with relevance to several mental disorders.

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   1. UncheckedThe brain's default network is active during internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, imagining the future and thinking about others' perspectives.“Providing insight into function, the default network is active when individuals are engaged in internally focused tasks including autobiographical memory retrieval, envisioning the future, and conceiving the perspectives of others.”
   2. UncheckedA part of the default network in the medial temporal lobe supplies memories and associations that the paper describes as the building blocks of mental simulation.“The medial temporal lobe subsystem provides information from prior experiences in the form of memories and associations that are the building blocks of mental simulation.”
   3. UncheckedTwo subsystems of the brain's default network are described as meeting at key integration points, including the posterior cingulate cortex.“These two subsystems converge on important nodes of integration including the posterior cingulate cortex.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion

   Power, Barnes, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2011

   The paper shows that subject motion creates systematic, spurious patterns in resting-state fMRI connectivity, proposes data-quality indices and a motion-reduction method, and says earlier work may need revisiting.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting-state fMRI, subject motion lowers many long-distance brain correlations and raises many short-distance ones, even after standard corrections.“Specifically, many long-distance correlations are decreased by subject motion, whereas many short-distance correlations are increased.”
   2. UncheckedMotion-related changes in resting-state fMRI correlations are not produced by, nor adequately removed by, some common processing steps.“These changes in rs-fcMRI correlations do not arise from, nor are they adequately countered by, some common functional connectivity processing steps.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   DPABI: Data Processing & Analysis for (Resting-State) Brain Imaging

   Yan, Wang, Zuo and Zang · Neuroinformatics · 2016

   The authors introduce DPABI, an open-source toolbox for resting-state fMRI analysis that grew out of REST and DPARSF and aims to make processing easier, quicker and more comparable across studies.

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   1. UncheckedThe DPABI toolbox builds in recent advances in controlling and measuring head motion, so users can test results under stringent motion-control strategies.“DPABI incorporates recent research advances on head motion control and measurement standardization, thus allowing users to evaluate results using stringent control strategies.”
   2. UncheckedDPABI includes a user-friendly pipeline toolkit for analysing resting-state fMRI data from rats and monkeys, reflecting growth in animal imaging.“Furthermore, DPABI provides a user-friendly pipeline analysis toolkit for rat/monkey R-fMRI data analysis to reflect the rapid advances in animal imaging.”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The organization of the human cerebellum estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

   Buckner, Krienen, Castellanos, Diaz and Yeo · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2011

   Using resting-state MRI from 1,000 people, the authors mapped how the human cerebellum connects to the cerebral cortex and found most of it links to association areas, in orderly, mirrored maps.

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   1. UncheckedAcross 17 cerebral networks, the share of cerebellum linked to each tracks its share of cerebrum, with a few exceptions such as primary visual cortex, which is absent.“Quantitative analysis of 17 distinct cerebral networks revealed that the extent of the cerebellum dedicated to each network is proportional to the network's extent in the cerebrum with a few exceptions, including primary visual cortex, which is not represented in the cerebellum.”
   2. UncheckedCerebellar regions linked to association cortex have separate front and back representations that mirror each other, as the movement-related ones do.“Like somatomotor representations, cerebellar regions linked to association cortex have separate anterior and posterior representations that are oriented as mirror images of one another.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis

   Greicius, Krasnow, Reiss and Menon · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002

   The study examined resting-state connectivity of the default mode network, and reports a cohesive network that looks the same during a visual task and is inversely linked to lateral prefrontal regions during cognition.

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   1. UncheckedDuring rest, activity in the posterior cingulate cortex rose and fell in step with the ventral anterior cingulate and other default mode network regions.“PCC was strongly coupled with vACC and several other brain regions implicated in the default mode network.”
   2. UncheckedDuring a visual processing task, connectivity maps for two default-mode brain regions looked virtually identical to those recorded at rest.“Next, we examined the functional connectivity of PCC and vACC during a visual processing task and show that the resultant connectivity maps are virtually identical to those obtained during rest.”
   3. Unchecked“We report significant inverse correlations among all three lateral prefrontal regions and PCC, suggesting a mechanism for attenuation of default mode network activity during cognitive processing.”

10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: A primer with examples

    Nichols and Holmes · Human Brain Mapping · 2001

    The paper explains nonparametric permutation testing for functional neuroimaging, with MATLAB software and three worked PET and fMRI examples, compared with standard parametric methods.

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    1. UncheckedWith few degrees of freedom, a permutation test using a smoothed variance estimate can outperform the comparable Statistical Parametric Mapping approach.“For analyses with low degrees of freedom, such as single subject PET/SPECT experiments or multi‐subject PET/SPECT or f MRI designs assessed for population effects, the nonparametric approach employing a locally pooled (smoothed) variance estimate can outperform the comparable Statistical Parametric…”

11. Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms

    Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images

    Olshausen and Field · Nature · 1996

    A learning algorithm that seeks sparse linear codes for natural images develops localized, oriented, bandpass receptive fields like those of simple cells in primary visual cortex.

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    1. UncheckedA sparse code learned from natural images is described as a more efficient representation because its outputs are more statistically independent.“The resulting sparse image code provides a more efficient representation for later stages of processing because it possesses a higher degree of statistical independence among its outputs.”

12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Functional Network Organization of the Human Brain

    Power, Cohen, Nelson et al. · Neuron · 2011

    The authors built two brain-wide graphs from resting-state MRI in healthy adults, matched subgraphs to known brain systems, and examined network properties including those of the default mode subgraph.

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    1. UncheckedTwo brain-wide graphs built from resting-state MRI in healthy adults contain many subgraphs that match known functional brain systems.“These graphs contain many subgraphs in good agreement with known functional brain systems.”
    2. UncheckedA modified voxelwise brain graph shows spatial motifs in how functional systems are patterned across the cortex, according to the paper.“The modified voxelwise graph also reveals spatial motifs in the patterning of systems across the cortex.”

13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Consistent resting-state networks across healthy subjects

    Damoiseaux, Rombouts, Barkhof et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006

    Using a statistical method on resting fMRI scans, the study found brain activity patterns that were consistent across subjects and sessions, with signal changes comparable to those seen in task experiments.

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    1. UncheckedResting-state fMRI analysis found 10 brain patterns, linked to regions for movement, vision, memory and others, with signal changes up to 3%.“The analysis found 10 patterns with potential functional relevance, consisting of regions known to be involved in motor function, visual processing, executive functioning, auditory processing, memory, and the so-called default-mode network, each with BOLD signal changes up to 3%.”
    2. UncheckedIn this resting-state fMRI study, brain areas with a higher mean percentage BOLD signal were generally more consistent and varied least around the mean.“In general, areas with a high mean percentage BOLD signal are consistent and show the least variation around the mean.”

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Methods to detect, characterize, and remove motion artifact in resting state fMRI

    Power, Mitra, Laumann, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2013

    The paper examines how head motion alters fMRI signal and connectivity correlations, tests ways to remove it, and shows that censoring high-motion volumes reduces motion-related group differences to chance levels.

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    1. UncheckedSignal changes caused by head motion, during and after movement, raise resting-state fMRI correlations in a way that depends on the distance between brain regions.“These signal changes, both during and after motion, increase observed RSFC correlations in a distance-dependent manner.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Perineuronal nets stabilize the grid cell network

    Christensen, Lensjø, Lepperød et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

    The paper reports that removing perineuronal nets lowers inhibitory activity and destabilises grid cell maps, with knock-on distortion of hippocampal spatial representations, suggesting the nets stabilise the grid network.

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    1. UncheckedIn animals with disrupted perineuronal nets, a novel arena scrambled grid cell timing relationships and the stored map of a familiar arena.“Furthermore, in animals with disrupted PNNs, exposure to a novel arena corrupted the spatiotemporal relationships within grid cell modules, and the stored representations of a familiar arena.”
    2. Unchecked“Finally, we show that PNN removal in entorhinal cortex distorted spatial representations in downstream hippocampal neurons.”

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI

    Schaefer, Kong, Gordon et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2017

    The authors propose a gradient-weighted Markov Random Field method that combines two parcellation approaches, and report that its brain parcels are more homogeneous and reflect neurobiologically meaningful features.

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    1. Unchecked“Using task-fMRI and rs-fMRI across diverse acquisition protocols, we found gwMRF parcellations to be more homogeneous than 4 previously published parcellations.”
    2. UncheckedBrain regions drawn by the authors' gwMRF method matched the borders of some cortical areas mapped by histology and visuotopic fMRI.“Furthermore, gwMRF parcellations agreed with the boundaries of certain cortical areas defined using histology and visuotopic fMRI.”
    3. Unchecked“Some parcels captured subareal (somatotopic and visuotopic) features that likely reflect distinct computational units within known cortical areas.”

17. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Investigations into resting-state connectivity using independent component analysis

    Beckmann, DeLuca, Devlin and Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“We apply PICA to fMRI data acquired at rest, in order to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of such data, and demonstrate that this is an effective and robust tool for the identification of low-frequency resting-state patterns from data acquired at v…

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Biswal, Mennes, Zuo et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010

    The authors pooled resting-state fMRI data from 1,414 volunteers at 35 international centres, showing such datasets can be aggregated and shared, and released them openly as the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project.

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    1. UncheckedResting-state brain scans from 1,414 volunteers at 35 centres show a shared pattern of positive and negative connections, with variability in consistent places.“We demonstrate a universal architecture of positive and negative functional connections, as well as consistent loci of inter-individual variability.”
    2. UncheckedIn pooled resting-state brain scans from 1,414 volunteers, age and sex emerged as significant determinants of differences in functional connectivity.“Age and sex emerged as significant determinants.”
    3. UncheckedResting-state brain scans collected independently at many centres can be pooled and shared for joint analysis, according to this paper.“These results demonstrate that independent R-fMRI datasets can be aggregated and shared.”

19. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Cortical Hubs Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity: Mapping, Assessment of Stability, and Relation to Alzheimer's Disease

    Buckner, Sepulcre, Talukdar et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

    Using brain imaging, the authors mapped highly connected cortical hubs, found them stable across task states, and noted that amyloid-β deposition in Alzheimer's disease was high at hub locations.

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    1. UncheckedIn fMRI maps of the human cortex, the most highly connected 'hub' regions lay in posterior cingulate, lateral temporal, lateral parietal and prefrontal areas.“Prominent hubs were located within posterior cingulate, lateral temporal, lateral parietal, and medial/lateral prefrontal cortices.”
    2. UncheckedIn a 12-person dataset, brain hub locations were present in both passive and active task states, which the authors take to suggest a stable feature of cortical networks.“A third dataset ( n = 12) demonstrated that the locations of hubs were present across passive and active task states, suggesting that they reflect a stable property of cortical network architecture.”
    3. UncheckedIn a small PET study, people with Alzheimer's showed more amyloid-β in cortical hub regions than older controls, which may mean hubs add to the disease process.“Positron emission tomography amyloid imaging in AD ( n = 10) compared with older controls ( n = 29) showed high amyloid-β deposition in the locations of cortical hubs consistent with the possibility that hubs, while acting as critical way stations for information processing, may also augment the un…”

20. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Generation and Evaluation of a Cortical Area Parcellation from Resting-State Correlations

    Gordon, Laumann, Adeyemo, Huckins, Kelley and Petersen · Cerebral Cortex · 2014

    The authors describe a way to divide the human cortex into putative areas using abrupt changes in resting-state connectivity, and test how well the resulting parcels match known features of the brain.

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    1. UncheckedBrain parcels built from resting-state boundary maps had highly uniform connectivity patterns, more so than size-matched null models, in two datasets.“These parcels had highly homogenous RSFC patterns, indicating that they contained one unique RSFC signal; furthermore, the parcels were much more homogenous than a null model matched for parcel size when tested in two separate datasets.”
    2. UncheckedParcels drawn from resting-state boundary maps overlapped with architectonic maps of cortical areas 17, 2, 3 and 4.“The boundary map-derived parcellation contained parcels that overlapped with architectonic mapping of areas 17, 2, 3, and 4.”
    3. Unchecked“Several alternative parcellation schemes were tested this way, and no other parcellation was as homogenous as or had as large a difference compared with its null model.”