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2 claims from 1 paper

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    How do tasks impact the reliability of fMRI functional connectivity?

    Rai, Graff, Tansey and Bray · Human Brain Mapping · 2024

    Using a densely sampled dataset of 10 adults, the study examined how different tasks affect the reliability of fMRI functional connectivity across the brain, and what role signal properties play.

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    1. UncheckedOutside the brain regions engaged by a task, functional connectivity signal variability and reliability are generally lower during tasks than at rest.“However, FC signal variability and reliability is broadly dampened during tasks outside task‐engaged regions.”
    2. UncheckedIn this fMRI dataset, how much the brain signal varied over time was the strongest driver of how reliable functional connectivity measures were.“From our analyses, we observed signal variability was the strongest driver of FC reliability.”

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