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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Competition between functional brain networks mediates behavioral variability

   Kelly, Uddin, Biswal, Castellanos and Milham · NeuroImage · 2007

   The study measured how strongly two competing brain networks were anticorrelated in 26 people at rest and during a flanker task, and related this to how variable their response times were.

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   1. UncheckedIn 26 people, a stronger negative correlation between the default mode and task-positive networks went with less variable response times.“These individual differences appear to be behaviorally relevant, as interindividual variation in the strength of the correlation was significantly related to individual differences in response time variability: the stronger the negative correlation (i.e., the closer to 180 degrees antiphase), the l…”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Hierarchical Organization of the Default, Dorsal Attention and Salience Networks in Adolescents and Young Adults

   Zhou, Friston, Zeidman, Chen, Li and Razi · Cerebral Cortex · 2017

   Using dynamic causal modelling on resting-state fMRI from 404 healthy adolescents and young adults, the authors report a causal hierarchy underlying anticorrelated activity between brain networks.

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   1. UncheckedIn resting brain scans, the salience network appears to sit at the top of a hierarchy, possibly modulating the anticorrelated default and dorsal attention networks.“The relative strength of efferent versus afferent connections places the SN at the apex of the hierarchy, suggesting that the SN modulates anticorrelated networks with descending hierarchical connections.”