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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   How much is “enough”? Considerations for functional connectivity reliability in pediatric naturalistic fMRI

   Rai, Godfrey, Graff et al. · Imaging Neuroscience · 2025

   Using over 2.8 hours of passive-viewing fMRI per person from 25 children and 25 adults, the study compared how reliably functional connectivity is measured, and how that depends on scan length and head motion.

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   1. UncheckedIn this study, children needed nearly twice as much usable scan time as adults for comparable brain-connectivity reliability, and head motion explained only part of this.“We found that FC test–retest correlations increased asymptotically with scan length, with children requiring nearly twice the post-censored scan time (24.6 minutes) compared with adults (14.4 minutes) to achieve comparable reliability, and that this effect was only partly attributable to head motio…”
   2. UncheckedThe reliability gap between lower-motion adults and higher-motion children varied across the brain, and was largest in ventral anterior temporal and frontal regions.“Reliability differences between lower-motion adults and higher-motion children were spatially non-uniform and largest in ventral anterior temporal and frontal regions.”
   3. UncheckedIn children, more engaging videos during fMRI reduced head motion but gave lower functional connectivity reliability than less engaging "low-demand" videos.“Viewing conditions with greater engagement reduced head motion in children but had lower FC reliability than less engaging “low-demand” videos, suggesting complex state- or condition-related trade-offs.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Using fingerprinting as a testbed for strategies to improve reproducibility of functional connectivity

   Ramduny, Vanderwal and Kelly · Aperture Neuro · 2026

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   1. Unchecked“Using five datasets from the Consortium for Replicability and Reproducibility, we found that higher identification accuracies were achieved when using: (I) global signal regression; (II) finer brain parcellations; (III) cortical regions compared to subcortic…