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1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity

   Finn, Shen, Scheinost et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2015

   Using Human Connectome Project fMRI data, the study found that individual brain connectivity profiles can identify people across sessions and conditions, and that they predict fluid intelligence.

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   1. UncheckedUsing Human Connectome Project data, the paper says brain connectivity profiles work like a fingerprint that can pick out individuals from a large group.“Here we establish that this individual variability is both robust and reliable, using data from the Human Connectome Project to demonstrate that functional connectivity profiles act as a 'fingerprint' that can accurately identify subjects from a large group.”
   2. UncheckedBrain connectivity patterns identified individuals across scan sessions and between task and rest, which the authors take to mean each person's profile is intrinsic.“Identification was successful across scan sessions and even between task and rest conditions, indicating that an individual's connectivity profile is intrinsic, and can be used to distinguish that individual regardless of how the brain is engaged during imaging.”
   3. UncheckedBrain connectivity profiles predicted fluid intelligence, and the networks that best told individuals apart were also the most predictive of cognitive behaviour.“Furthermore, we show that connectivity profiles predict levels of fluid intelligence: the same networks that were most discriminating of individuals were also most predictive of cognitive behavior.”