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4 claims from 2 papers

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Activity flow over resting-state networks shapes cognitive task activations

    Cole, Ito, Bassett and Schultz · Nature Neuroscience · 2016

    The paper reports that activity flow over resting-state connectivity networks predicts cognitive task activations in a neural network model and in held-out regions and individuals in fMRI data.

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    1. UncheckedIn a large-scale neural network model, estimating how activation spreads over resting-state connectivity networks allowed cognitive task activations to be predicted.“We found that estimating task-evoked activity flow (the spread of activation amplitudes) over resting-state FC networks allowed prediction of cognitive task activations in a large-scale neural network model.”
    2. UncheckedTask-related brain activity in left-out regions and left-out people could be predicted from activity spreading over resting-state connectivity networks, in fMRI data.“Applying this insight to empirical functional MRI data, we found that cognitive task activations can be predicted in held-out brain regions (and held-out individuals) via estimated activity flow over resting-state FC networks.”
  2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Cognitive task information is transferred between brain regions via resting-state network topology

    Ito, Kulkarni, Schultz et al. · Nature Communications · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we report that the transfer of diverse, task-rule information in distributed brain regions can be predicted based on estimated activity flow through resting-state network connections.”
    2. Unchecked“Further, we find that these task-rule information transfers are coordinated by global hub regions within cognitive control networks.”

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