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5 claims from 3 papers

1. 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.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective

   Elam, Glasser, Harms et al. · NeuroImage · 2021

   A retrospective on the Human Connectome Project's WU-Minn-Ox consortium: its goals, its methods and data sharing, the scientific advances from its data, and the challenges ahead for human neuroimaging.

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   1. UncheckedThe Human Connectome Project's methods have become a recognised set of best-practice strategies for collecting and analysing brain imaging data.“The "HCP-style" neuroimaging paradigm has emerged as a set of best-practice strategies for optimizing data acquisition and analysis.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Task-induced brain connectivity promotes the detection of individual differences in brain-behavior relationships

   Jiang, Zuo, Ford et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

   Using fMRI from rest and 7 tasks, the authors replicated an earlier study and found task-based brain connectivity often predicted cognitive traits better than resting-state connectivity.

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   1. UncheckedCombining fMRI data from several tasks improved prediction of cognitive traits, but adding more task conditions did not always make predictions better.“We also observed that combining multi-task fMRI improved prediction performance, yet, integrating the more fMRI conditions can not necessarily ensure better predictions.”