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17 claims from 7 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

   Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis

   Greicius, Krasnow, Reiss and Menon · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002

   The study examined resting-state connectivity of the default mode network, and reports a cohesive network that looks the same during a visual task and is inversely linked to lateral prefrontal regions during cognition.

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   1. UncheckedDuring rest, activity in the posterior cingulate cortex rose and fell in step with the ventral anterior cingulate and other default mode network regions.“PCC was strongly coupled with vACC and several other brain regions implicated in the default mode network.”
   2. UncheckedDuring a visual processing task, connectivity maps for two default-mode brain regions looked virtually identical to those recorded at rest.“Next, we examined the functional connectivity of PCC and vACC during a visual processing task and show that the resultant connectivity maps are virtually identical to those obtained during rest.”
   3. Unchecked“We report significant inverse correlations among all three lateral prefrontal regions and PCC, suggesting a mechanism for attenuation of default mode network activity during cognitive processing.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Cortical Hubs Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity: Mapping, Assessment of Stability, and Relation to Alzheimer's Disease

   Buckner, Sepulcre, Talukdar et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

   Using brain imaging, the authors mapped highly connected cortical hubs, found them stable across task states, and noted that amyloid-β deposition in Alzheimer's disease was high at hub locations.

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   1. UncheckedIn fMRI maps of the human cortex, the most highly connected 'hub' regions lay in posterior cingulate, lateral temporal, lateral parietal and prefrontal areas.“Prominent hubs were located within posterior cingulate, lateral temporal, lateral parietal, and medial/lateral prefrontal cortices.”
   2. UncheckedIn a 12-person dataset, brain hub locations were present in both passive and active task states, which the authors take to suggest a stable feature of cortical networks.“A third dataset ( n = 12) demonstrated that the locations of hubs were present across passive and active task states, suggesting that they reflect a stable property of cortical network architecture.”
   3. UncheckedIn a small PET study, people with Alzheimer's showed more amyloid-β in cortical hub regions than older controls, which may mean hubs add to the disease process.“Positron emission tomography amyloid imaging in AD ( n = 10) compared with older controls ( n = 29) showed high amyloid-β deposition in the locations of cortical hubs consistent with the possibility that hubs, while acting as critical way stations for information processing, may also augment the un…”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The impact of global signal regression on resting state correlations: Are anti-correlated networks introduced?

   Murphy, Birn, Handwerker, Jones and Bandettini · NeuroImage · 2008

   The paper asks whether removing the global fMRI signal creates apparent anti-correlated resting-state networks, using mathematics, simulations, a breath-holding and visual task experiment, and resting-state data.

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   1. UncheckedAfter global signal regression, a seed voxel's correlations with all other brain voxels must sum to a negative value.“Here we show that, after global signal regression, correlation values to a seed voxel must sum to a negative value.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Network Centrality in the Human Functional Connectome

   Zuo, Ehmke, Mennes et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2011

   Using resting-state fMRI from 1003 healthy adults, the study compares network centrality measures across the voxel-wise brain network and tests their reliability and links to age and sex.

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   1. UncheckedDifferent network centrality measures pick up different aspects of brain connectivity, so both global and local properties of the functional connectome matter.“We then demonstrate that each centrality measure captures different aspects of connectivity, highlighting the importance of considering both global and local connectivity properties of the functional connectome.”
   2. UncheckedIn resting-state brain scans, age was linked to lower degree centrality, but not eigenvector centrality, in the precuneus and posterior cingulate.“Specifically, our analyses reveal age-related decreases in degree centrality, but not eigenvector centrality, within precuneus and posterior cingulate regions.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Development of the default-mode network during childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

   Fan, Liao, Lei et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

   A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study of 305 children tracked how the default-mode network's functional organisation changes from childhood to adolescence, using graph theory.

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   1. UncheckedIn this longitudinal study, default-mode network connectivity strengthened from childhood to adolescence and came to resemble that of young adults spatially.“We showed that the overall connectivity increased in strength from childhood to adolescence and became spatially similar to that in the young adult group (N = 61, 18-28 years of age).”
   2. UncheckedIn this longitudinal study, efficiency of information transfer across the default-mode network, globally and locally, rose with age from childhood to adolescence.“Global and local network efficiency in the DMN also increased with age, indicating an enhanced capability in parallel information communication within the brain system.”
   3. Unchecked“Based on the divergent developmental rates of nodal centrality, we identified three subclusters within the DMN, with the fastest rates in the cluster mainly comprising the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Intrinsic functional network architecture of human semantic processing: Modules and hubs

   Xu, Lin, Han, He and Bi · NeuroImage · 2016

   Using resting-state data from 146 people, the authors mapped how brain areas tied to meaning form modules and hubs, and proposed a model of semantic processing linking memory, language and control.

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   1. UncheckedBrain regions consistently active in semantic tasks split into three stable modules in resting-state connectivity: default mode, left perisylvian and left frontoparietal.“Focusing on areas consistently activated during semantic processing generated from a meta-analysis of 120 neuroimaging studies (Binder et al., 2009), we found that these regions were organized into three stable modules corresponding to the default mode network (Module DMN), the left perisylvian net…”
   2. UncheckedThe study identified provincial hubs, regions that converge information within a single module, in the brain's semantic processing system.“Provincial hubs, which converge local information within each system, were also identified: the bilateral posterior cingulate cortices/precuneus, the bilateral border area of the posterior AG and the superior lateral occipital gyrus for Module DMN; the left supramarginal gyrus, the middle part of t…”