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1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   A cortical hierarchy of localized and distributed processes revealed via dissociation of task activations, connectivity changes, and intrinsic timescales

   Ito, Hearne and Cole · NeuroImage · 2020

   The study compared task-evoked activity with task connectivity across the cortex and found they were negatively related, in line with a cortical hierarchy that also tracked intrinsic timescales and myelin content.

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   1. UncheckedAcross several tasks, functional connectivity during tasks was lower in unimodal (sensory) brain areas than in transmodal (higher-order) areas.“In contrast, we found that task-state FC was significantly reduced in unimodal areas relative to transmodal areas.”
   2. Unchecked“This revealed a strong negative relationship between localized task activity and distributed FC across cortical regions that was associated with the previously reported principal gradient of macroscale organization.”
   3. UncheckedThe split between local task activity and distributed connectivity across the cortex matched differences in intrinsic timescale and myelin content.“Moreover, this dissociation corresponded to hierarchical cortical differences in the intrinsic timescale estimated from resting-state fMRI and region myelin content estimated from structural MRI.”