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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

   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…

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Rest-task modulation of fMRI-derived global signal topography is mediated by transient coactivation patterns

   Zhang, Huang, Tumati and Northoff · PLoS Biology · 2020

   Using Human Connectome Project fMRI data from 837 people, the paper shows that the spatial pattern of the global signal changes between rest and tasks and is linked to transient coactivation patterns.

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   1. UncheckedAt rest, the fMRI global signal correlates most strongly with primary sensory and motor regions and least with association areas of the brain.“In the resting state, high GSCORR was observed mainly in the primary sensory and motor regions, whereas low GSCORR was seen in the association brain areas.”
   2. UncheckedIn Human Connectome Project data, global signal correlation mainly fell in sensorimotor cortex during seven tasks compared with rest.“This pattern changed during the seven tasks, with mainly decreased GSCORR in sensorimotor cortex.”
   3. UncheckedThe change in global signal topography between rest and tasks can be traced to brief coactivation patterns at the peak of the global signal.“Importantly, this rest-task modulation of GSCORR could be traced to transient coactivation patterns at the peak period of GS (GS-peak).”