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5 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Brain's Default Network

   Buckner, Andrews‐Hanna and Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2008

   A review of thirty years of brain imaging work, arguing the default network is a distinct brain system for internal thought, made up of interacting subsystems, with relevance to several mental disorders.

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   1. UncheckedThe brain's default network is active during internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, imagining the future and thinking about others' perspectives.“Providing insight into function, the default network is active when individuals are engaged in internally focused tasks including autobiographical memory retrieval, envisioning the future, and conceiving the perspectives of others.”
   2. UncheckedA part of the default network in the medial temporal lobe supplies memories and associations that the paper describes as the building blocks of mental simulation.“The medial temporal lobe subsystem provides information from prior experiences in the form of memories and associations that are the building blocks of mental simulation.”
   3. UncheckedTwo subsystems of the brain's default network are described as meeting at key integration points, including the posterior cingulate cortex.“These two subsystems converge on important nodes of integration including the posterior cingulate cortex.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Anticorrelations in resting state networks without global signal regression

   Chai, Nieto-Castañón, Öngür and Whitfield‐Gabrieli · NeuroImage · 2011

   The study compared two fMRI noise-removal methods, CompCor and global signal regression, and reports that anticorrelations between brain networks appear under both, so may not be artefacts of global regression.

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   1. UncheckedIn this resting-state fMRI study, specificity and sensitivity for positive correlations were higher with CompCor noise removal than with global signal regression.“Specificity and sensitivity for positive correlations were higher under CompCor compared to the global regression method.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Cognitive Architecture of Spatial Navigation: Hippocampal and Striatal Contributions

   Chersi and Burgess · Neuron · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“The resulting architecture includes striatal reinforcement learning based on egocentric representations of sensory states and actions, incidental Hebbian association of sensory information with allocentric state representations in the hippocampus, and arbitr…