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2 claims from 1 paper

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Brain parcellation selection: An overlooked decision point with meaningful effects on individual differences in resting-state functional connectivity

    Bryce, Flournoy, Moreira et al. · NeuroImage · 2021

    The study compared eight common brain parcellation schemes in two developmental samples and found that parcellation choice meaningfully affected resting-state connectivity results and their links to age, poverty and cognitive ability.

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    1. UncheckedNetworks sharing a name across brain parcellations, such as the default network, did not give reliable within-network functional connectivity measures.“However, networks bearing the same name across parcellations (e.g., default network) do not produce reliable within-network measures of functional connectivity.”
    2. UncheckedWhich brain parcellation scheme researchers pick changed how strongly functional connectivity was linked to age, poverty and cognitive ability in these samples.“Critically, parcellation selection significantly impacted the magnitude of associations of functional connectivity with age, poverty, and cognitive ability, producing meaningful differences in interpretation of individual differences in functional connectivity based on parcellation choice.”

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