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8 claims from 4 papers

1. 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. UncheckedIn the authors' tests, no other brain parcellation scheme was as internally uniform, or beat its size-matched null model by as much, as theirs.“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.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex

   Glasser, Coalson, Robinson et al. · Nature · 2016

   The paper built a map of 180 human cortical areas per hemisphere from Human Connectome Project scans, and trained a classifier to find those areas automatically in new individuals.

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   1. UncheckedUsing multi-modal HCP brain scans, the authors mapped 180 cortical areas per hemisphere in a group average of 210 healthy young adults.“Using multi-modal magnetic resonance images from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) and an objective semi-automated neuroanatomical approach, we delineated 180 areas per hemisphere bounded by sharp changes in cortical architecture, function, connectivity, and/or topography in a precisely aligned gr…”

3. 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 model combining local-gradient and global-similarity approaches to divide the cerebral cortex into parcels, and report that it gives homogeneous parcels that match some known cortical areas.

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   1. UncheckedUsing task and resting-state fMRI, the authors' gwMRF brain parcellations were more homogeneous than 4 previously published parcellations.“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. UncheckedSome brain parcels in this method captured finer features, such as body-map and visual-field layouts, within already known cortical areas.“Some parcels captured subareal (somatotopic and visuotopic) features that likely reflect distinct computational units within known cortical areas.”

4. 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.”