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1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

   Yeo, Krienen, Sepulcre et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2011

   Using resting-state MRI from 1,000 people, the authors mapped large-scale networks across the human cerebral cortex and examined how they relate to sensory-motor pathways and association areas.

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   1. UncheckedNeighbouring parietal and prefrontal regions have distinct connectivity, suggesting parallel, interdigitated circuits that still show some interaction.“Distinct connectivity profiles of neighboring regions suggest they participate in distributed networks that, while showing evidence for interactions, are embedded within largely parallel, interdigitated circuits.”
   2. UncheckedIn the brain's sensory and motor areas, resting-state functional connectivity followed the topographic maps across neighbouring areas.“Within the sensory and motor cortices, functional connectivity followed topographic representations across adjacent areas.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion

   Power, Barnes, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2011

   The paper shows that subject motion creates systematic, spurious patterns in resting-state fMRI connectivity, proposes data-quality indices and a motion-reduction method, and says earlier work may need revisiting.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting-state fMRI, subject motion lowers many long-distance brain correlations and raises many short-distance ones, even after standard corrections.“Specifically, many long-distance correlations are decreased by subject motion, whereas many short-distance correlations are increased.”
   2. UncheckedMotion-related changes in resting-state fMRI correlations are not produced by, nor adequately removed by, some common processing steps.“These changes in rs-fcMRI correlations do not arise from, nor are they adequately countered by, some common functional connectivity processing steps.”

3. 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.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Conn : A Functional Connectivity Toolbox for Correlated and Anticorrelated Brain Networks

   Whitfield‐Gabrieli and Nieto-Castañón · Brain Connectivity · 2012

   The authors present Conn, a toolbox for analysing functional connectivity MRI data using CompCor noise correction, with examples of use and interscan reliability estimates for its measures.

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   1. UncheckedUnlike global signal regression, the CompCor noise-reduction method does not remove the global signal, so negative correlations between brain regions can be interpreted.“Compared to methods that rely on global signal regression, the CompCor noise reduction method allows for interpretation of anticorrelations as there is no regression of the global signal.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional Network Organization of the Human Brain

   Power, Cohen, Nelson et al. · Neuron · 2011

   The authors built two brain-wide graphs from resting-state MRI in healthy adults, matched subgraphs to known brain systems, and examined network properties including those of the default mode subgraph.

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   1. UncheckedTwo brain-wide graphs built from resting-state MRI in healthy adults contain many subgraphs that match known functional brain systems.“These graphs contain many subgraphs in good agreement with known functional brain systems.”
   2. UncheckedA modified voxelwise brain graph shows spatial motifs in how functional systems are patterned across the cortex, according to the paper.“The modified voxelwise graph also reveals spatial motifs in the patterning of systems across the cortex.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Generation and Evaluation of a Cortical Area Parcellation from Resting-State Correlations

   Gordon, Laumann, Adeyemo, Huckins, Kelley and Petersen · Cerebral Cortex · 2014

   The authors describe a way to divide the human cortex into putative areas using abrupt changes in resting-state connectivity, and test how well the resulting parcels match known features of the brain.

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   1. UncheckedBrain parcels built from resting-state boundary maps had highly uniform connectivity patterns, more so than size-matched null models, in two datasets.“These parcels had highly homogenous RSFC patterns, indicating that they contained one unique RSFC signal; furthermore, the parcels were much more homogenous than a null model matched for parcel size when tested in two separate datasets.”
   2. UncheckedParcels drawn from resting-state boundary maps overlapped with architectonic maps of cortical areas 17, 2, 3 and 4.“The boundary map-derived parcellation contained parcels that overlapped with architectonic mapping of areas 17, 2, 3, and 4.”
   3. Unchecked“Several alternative parcellation schemes were tested this way, and no other parcellation was as homogenous as or had as large a difference compared with its null model.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Methods to detect, characterize, and remove motion artifact in resting state fMRI

   Power, Mitra, Laumann, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2013

   The paper examines how head motion alters fMRI signal and connectivity correlations, tests ways to remove it, and shows that censoring high-motion volumes reduces motion-related group differences to chance levels.

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   1. UncheckedSignal changes caused by head motion, during and after movement, raise resting-state fMRI correlations in a way that depends on the distance between brain regions.“These signal changes, both during and after motion, increase observed RSFC correlations in a distance-dependent manner.”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI

   Schaefer, Kong, Gordon et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2017

   The authors propose a gradient-weighted Markov Random Field method that combines two parcellation approaches, and report that its brain parcels are more homogeneous and reflect neurobiologically meaningful features.

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   1. Unchecked“Using task-fMRI and rs-fMRI across diverse acquisition protocols, we found gwMRF parcellations to be more homogeneous than 4 previously published parcellations.”
   2. UncheckedBrain regions drawn by the authors' gwMRF method matched the borders of some cortical areas mapped by histology and visuotopic fMRI.“Furthermore, gwMRF parcellations agreed with the boundaries of certain cortical areas defined using histology and visuotopic fMRI.”
   3. Unchecked“Some parcels captured subareal (somatotopic and visuotopic) features that likely reflect distinct computational units within known cortical areas.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Investigations into resting-state connectivity using independent component analysis

   Beckmann, DeLuca, Devlin and Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“We apply PICA to fMRI data acquired at rest, in order to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of such data, and demonstrate that this is an effective and robust tool for the identification of low-frequency resting-state patterns from data acquired at v…

10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Impact of in-scanner head motion on multiple measures of functional connectivity: Relevance for studies of neurodevelopment in youth

    Satterthwaite, Wolf, Loughead et al. · NeuroImage · 2012

    In 456 children and adolescents, head motion during MRI scanning affected many kinds of resting-state connectivity measure, which matters for studies of brain development in youth.

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    1. UncheckedAge was linked to stronger within-network brain connectivity even after accounting for head motion, but motion control markedly weakened that link.“While subject age was associated with increased within-network connectivity even when motion was accounted for, controlling for motion substantially attenuated the strength of this relationship.”

11. 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.”

12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The Global Signal and Observed Anticorrelated Resting State Brain Networks

    Fox, Zhang, Snyder and Raichle · Journal of Neurophysiology · 2009

    The paper examines the global signal in resting-state fMRI and finds it is truly global, that removing it sharpens correlation maps, and that anticorrelated networks are not just a by-product of removal.

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    1. UncheckedRemoving the global signal from resting-state fMRI data, the authors say, improves detection of system-specific correlations and fit with brain anatomy.“We detail the influence of global signal removal on resting state correlation maps both mathematically and empirically, showing an enhancement in detection of system-specific correlations and improvement in the correspondence between resting-state correlations and anatomy.”
    2. UncheckedSeveral features of anticorrelated resting-state brain networks are not caused by global signal removal, which the authors say suggests a biological basis.“Finally, we show that several characteristics of anticorrelated networks including their spatial distribution, cross-subject consistency, presence with modified whole brain masks, and existence before global regression are not attributable to global signal removal and therefore suggest a biological…”

13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Intrinsic and Task-Evoked Network Architectures of the Human Brain

    Cole, Bassett, Power, Braver and Petersen · Neuron · 2014

    The paper compared whole-brain functional networks across dozens of task states with those at rest, and reports a shared intrinsic architecture plus small task-general and task-specific changes.

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    1. UncheckedAcross many tasks, the most common strengths of connection between brain regions closely matched those at rest, suggesting an 'intrinsic' standard architecture.“The most frequent functional connectivity strengths across tasks closely matched the strengths observed at rest, suggesting this is an "intrinsic," standard architecture of functional brain organization.”
    2. UncheckedSmall, consistent connectivity changes shared across many tasks suggest a task-general network pattern that sets task states apart from rest.“Furthermore, a set of small but consistent changes common across tasks suggests the existence of a task-general network architecture distinguishing task states from rest.”

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Precision Functional Mapping of Individual Human Brains

    Gordon, Laumann, Gilmore et al. · Neuron · 2017

    The authors built a highly sampled MRI dataset from ten adults, made individual-specific functional connectomes, and propose precision individual connectomics as a model for studying healthy and diseased brains.

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    1. UncheckedMapping each person's brain network separately revealed new kinds of variation in network layout and organisation, some matching structural and task-based brain features.“This individual-connectome approach revealed several new types of spatial and organizational variability in brain networks, including unique network features and topologies that corresponded with structural and task-derived brain features.”

15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Defining functional areas in individual human brains using resting functional connectivity MRI

    Cohen, Fair, Dosenbach et al. · NeuroImage · 2008

    The authors applied new image analysis tools to resting-state fMRI to test whether it can map putative functional area boundaries across the cortex, in individuals and in groups.

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    1. UncheckedResting-state fMRI correlation patterns show sharp transitions that may mark boundaries between brain areas, detectable in single people and in group data.“We find that rs-fcMRI patterns show sharp transitions in correlation patterns and that these putative areal boundaries can be reliably detected in individual subjects as well as in group data.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, combining surface-based analysis techniques with image processing algorithms allows automated mapping of putative areal boundaries across large expanses of cortex without the need for prior information about a region's function or topography.”

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Statistical harmonization corrects site effects in functional connectivity measurements from multi‐site fMRI data

    Yu, Linn, Cook et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 2018

    Using a four-site resting-state fMRI dataset, the authors examined site effects on connectivity measures and applied the ComBat harmonization method to remove them and increase power to detect age associations.

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    1. Unchecked“In the current work, ComBat successfully removed site effects identified in connectivity and network measures and increased the power to detect age associations when using optimal combinations of connectivity metrics and brain atlases.”
    2. UncheckedIn this four-site fMRI dataset, the size of differences between scanning sites varied with the connectivity measure and the brain atlas used.“Indeed, in this study, we found that the magnitude of site effects depended on the choice of connectivity metric and brain atlas.”

17. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    On the Stability of BOLD fMRI Correlations

    Laumann, Snyder, Mitra et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2016

    Using simulations and several sets of fMRI data, the paper finds that task states change BOLD correlations, but apparent changes during rest are mostly sampling variability, head motion and sleep state.

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    1. UncheckedIn resting-state fMRI, apparent moment-to-moment changes in brain-region correlations are largely explained by sampling variability.“However, we find that observations of "dynamic" BOLD correlations during the resting state are largely explained by sampling variability.”
    2. UncheckedAfter sampling variability, head motion accounts for the largest share of apparent changes in brain-region correlations during rest, according to this paper.“Beyond sampling variability, the largest part of observed "dynamics" during rest is attributable to head motion.”
    3. UncheckedSome of the apparent moment-to-moment variation in brain-region correlations during rest is attributed to changes in how awake or asleep people are.“An additional component of dynamic variability during rest is attributable to fluctuating sleep state.”

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Activity flow over resting-state networks shapes cognitive task activations

    Cole, Ito, Bassett and Schultz · Nature Neuroscience · 2016

    The paper reports that activity flow over resting-state connectivity networks predicts cognitive task activations in a neural network model and in held-out regions and individuals in fMRI data.

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    1. UncheckedIn a large-scale neural network model, estimating how activation spreads over resting-state connectivity networks allowed cognitive task activations to be predicted.“We found that estimating task-evoked activity flow (the spread of activation amplitudes) over resting-state FC networks allowed prediction of cognitive task activations in a large-scale neural network model.”
    2. UncheckedTask-related brain activity in left-out regions and left-out people could be predicted from activity spreading over resting-state connectivity networks, in fMRI data.“Applying this insight to empirical functional MRI data, we found that cognitive task activations can be predicted in held-out brain regions (and held-out individuals) via estimated activity flow over resting-state FC networks.”

19. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Global Signal Regression Strengthens Association between Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Behavior

    Li, Kong, Liégeois et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

    The study tested whether global signal regression, a debated fMRI clean-up step, strengthens links between resting-state brain connectivity and behaviour, finding that it did for most measures in young healthy adults.

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    1. Unchecked“By applying the variance component model to the Brain Genomics Superstruct Project (GSP), we found that behavioral variance explained by whole-brain RSFC increased by an average of 47% across 23 behavioral measures after GSR.”
    2. UncheckedGlobal signal regression raised behavioural prediction accuracy from brain connectivity by an average of 64% in the GSP data and 12% in the HCP data.“GSR improved behavioral prediction accuracies by an average of 64% and 12% in the GSP and HCP datasets respectively.”

20. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Individual-Specific Areal-Level Parcellations Improve Functional Connectivity Prediction of Behavior

    Kong, Yang, Gordon et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Resting-state functional connectivity derived from MS-HBM parcellations also achieved the best behavioral prediction performance.”
    2. Unchecked“Among the three MS-HBM variants, the strictly contiguous MS-HBM exhibited the best resting-state homogeneity and most uniform within-parcel task activation.”