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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Mitigating head motion artifact in functional connectivity MRI

   Ćirić, Rosen, Erus et al. · Nature Protocols · 2018

   This protocol describes how to apply and check a validated denoising strategy that reduces head-motion artefact in functional connectivity fMRI, with software that carries out all the steps.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says its denoising protocol can cut motion-related variance in functional connectivity to near zero, up to 100-fold better than minimal processing.“This protocol can be used to reduce motion-related variance to near zero in studies of functional connectivity, providing up to a 100-fold improvement over minimal-processing approaches in large datasets.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Beyond noise to function: reframing the global brain activity and its dynamic topography

   Zhang and Northoff · Communications Biology · 2022

   A review of findings from healthy and clinical groups argues that the fMRI global signal has neural functions, not just noise, and proposes a Dual-Layer Model of brain activity.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper reports that fMRI global signal is tied to physiological signals and arousal, and organises a dynamic brain topography that coordinates cognition.“We show that global signal (i) is closely coupled with physiological signals and modulates the arousal level; and (ii) organizes an elaborated dynamic topography and coordinates the different forms of cognition.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors propose a Dual-Layer Model of global brain activity, with a background layer and a surface layer.“We also postulate a Dual-Layer Model including both background and surface layers.”