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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri

   Biswal, Yetkin, Haughton and Hyde · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 1995

   Resting-brain MRI showed slow signal fluctuations that were strongly correlated across the motor cortex and other motor-related regions, which the authors read as functional connectivity.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting human brains, slow signal fluctuations (below 0.1 Hz) in motor regions rose and fell together, and also with several other motor-related regions.“Time courses of low frequency (<0.1 Hz) fluctuations in resting brain were observed to have a high degree of temporal correlation ( P < 10 −3 ) within these regions and also with time courses in several other regions that can be associated with motor function.”
   2. UncheckedFast MRI scans of resting human brains, taken every 250 ms, show signal fluctuations in each pixel that have a physiological origin.“An MRI time course of 512 echo‐planar images (EPI) in resting human brain obtained every 250 ms reveals fluctuations in signal intensity in each pixel that have a physiologic origin.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional Connectivity in Single and Multislice Echoplanar Imaging Using Resting-State Fluctuations

   Lowe, Mock and Sorenson · NeuroImage · 1998

   The study confirms correlated low-frequency resting fluctuations between left and right motor cortices at 1.5 T, and extends them to slower multislice scans and other symmetric brain regions.

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   1. Unchecked“These correlations are extended to lower sampling rate multislice echoplanar acquisitions and other right/left hemisphere-symmetric functional cortices.”
   2. UncheckedIn slower-sampled scans, resting-brain correlations were less specific, as heartbeat and breathing effects were aliased into the low-pass filter's pass-band.“The specificity of the correlations in the lower sampling-rate acquisitions is lower due to cardiac and respiratory-cycle effects which are aliased into the pass-band of the low-pass filter.”

3. Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation

   A neural network that finds a naturalistic solution for the production of muscle activity

   Sussillo, Churchland, Kaufman and Shenoy · Nature Neuroscience · 2015

   Recurrent neural networks trained to reproduce reaching monkeys' muscle activity found a simple oscillator-like solution that closely resembled motor cortex recordings from the same monkeys.

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   1. UncheckedIn trained neural network models of reaching, the natural solution was a low-dimensional oscillator producing the multiphasic muscle commands needed.“Analysis of trained models revealed that the natural dynamical solution was a low-dimensional oscillator that generated the necessary multiphasic commands.”
   2. UncheckedSimulated networks matched monkey motor cortex recordings only when they were optimised to find simple solutions, according to the paper.“Notably, data and simulations agreed only when models were optimized to find simple solutions.”