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7 claims from 6 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks

   Fox, Snyder, Vincent, Corbetta, Van Essen and Raichle · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005

   Using resting-state functional MRI, the study finds two opposed, widely spread brain networks whose spontaneous activity is correlated within each network and anticorrelated between them.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting human brains, one network is made of regions that usually activate during tasks and the other of regions that usually deactivate.“One network consists of regions routinely exhibiting task-related activations and the other of regions routinely exhibiting task-related deactivations.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Nonparametric permutation tests for functional neuroimaging: A primer with examples

   Nichols and Holmes · Human Brain Mapping · 2001

   The paper explains nonparametric permutation testing for functional neuroimaging, with MATLAB software and three worked PET and fMRI examples, compared with standard parametric methods.

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   1. UncheckedWith few degrees of freedom, a permutation test using a smoothed variance estimate can outperform the comparable Statistical Parametric Mapping approach.“For analyses with low degrees of freedom, such as single subject PET/SPECT experiments or multi‐subject PET/SPECT or f MRI designs assessed for population effects, the nonparametric approach employing a locally pooled (smoothed) variance estimate can outperform the comparable Statistical Parametric…”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Investigations into resting-state connectivity using independent component analysis

   Beckmann, DeLuca, Devlin and Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“We apply PICA to fMRI data acquired at rest, in order to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of such data, and demonstrate that this is an effective and robust tool for the identification of low-frequency resting-state patterns from data acquired at v…

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

   Botvinik‐Nezer, Holzmeister, Camerer et al. · Nature · 2020

   Seventy teams analysed the same fMRI dataset to test the same nine hypotheses; their results varied sizeably, and no two teams used an identical workflow.

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   1. UncheckedPrediction markets of researchers in the field overestimated how likely significant findings were, even among those with direct knowledge of the dataset.“Furthermore, prediction markets of researchers in the field revealed an overestimation of the likelihood of significant findings, even by researchers with direct knowledge of the dataset 2-5 .”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Activity flow over resting-state networks shapes cognitive task activations

   Cole, Ito, Bassett and Schultz · Nature Neuroscience · 2016

   The paper reports that activity flow over resting-state connectivity networks predicts cognitive task activations in a neural network model and in held-out regions and individuals in fMRI data.

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   1. UncheckedIn a large-scale neural network model, estimating how activation spreads over resting-state connectivity networks allowed cognitive task activations to be predicted.“We found that estimating task-evoked activity flow (the spread of activation amplitudes) over resting-state FC networks allowed prediction of cognitive task activations in a large-scale neural network model.”
   2. UncheckedTask-related brain activity in left-out regions and left-out people could be predicted from activity spreading over resting-state connectivity networks, in fMRI data.“Applying this insight to empirical functional MRI data, we found that cognitive task activations can be predicted in held-out brain regions (and held-out individuals) via estimated activity flow over resting-state FC networks.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Evaluation of functional MRI-based human brain parcellation: a review

   Moghimi, Dang, Do, Netoff, Lim and Atluri · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2022

   A review of how fMRI-based brain parcellations are evaluated, arguing that the best parcellation depends on its intended use and proposing evaluation within specific contexts.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors argue that the best way to divide the brain into regions depends on what the division is going to be used for.“We argue that the criteria for an optimal brain parcellation must depend on the application the parcellation is intended for.”