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5 claims from 2 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

   Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization

   Margulies, Ghosh, Goulas et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016

   The paper describes a main gradient of large-scale cortical connectivity with the default-mode network at one end and primary sensory and motor regions at the other.

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   1. UncheckedA gradient of brain connectivity places known large-scale networks in order, from perception and action to more abstract cognitive functions.“In addition, this connectivity gradient accounts for the respective positions of canonical networks and captures a functional spectrum from perception and action to more abstract cognitive functions.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper suggests the default-mode network sits at the top of a hierarchy of brain regions, describing the current cognitive state in the most abstract terms.“These results suggest that the default-mode network consists of regions at the top of a representational hierarchy that describe the current cognitive landscape in the most abstract terms.”