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4 claims from 2 papers

1. 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.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Opportunities and limitations of intrinsic functional connectivity MRI

   Buckner, Krienen and Yeo · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

   This review describes what intrinsic functional connectivity MRI can reveal about large-scale human brain networks, and the factors that complicate interpreting it.

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   1. UncheckedFunctional coupling between brain regions changes over time, which suggests anatomical connections constrain it without fully determining it.“Functional coupling changes dynamically, suggesting that it is constrained by, but not fully dictated by, anatomic connectivity.”