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171 claims from 97 papers, showing 21–40 of 97

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

   Solstad, Boccara, Kropff, Moser and Moser · Science · 2008

   The authors report a type of entorhinal cell that fires when an animal is near the borders of its surroundings, and describe where these cells are found and what they may do.

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   1. UncheckedBorder cells, which fire near environmental edges, make up under 10% of local cells but occur in all medial entorhinal layers and the parasubiculum.“Border cells are relatively sparse, making up less than 10% of the local cell population, but can be found in all layers of the medial entorhinal cortex as well as the adjacent parasubiculum, often intermingled with head-direction cells and grid cells.”
   2. UncheckedEntorhinal 'border cells' keep firing near a specific edge of an enclosure even when it is stretched, or changed in size, shape or room.“The orientation-specific edge-apposing activity of these “border cells” is maintained when the environment is stretched and during testing in enclosures of different size and shape in different rooms.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The influence of head motion on intrinsic functional connectivity MRI

   Van Dijk, Sabuncu and Buckner · NeuroImage · 2011

   In 1000 healthy young adults scanned at rest, head motion had systematic effects on functional connectivity MRI measures, though most variation between people was not linked to motion.

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   1. UncheckedIn 1000 healthy young adults, more head motion during scanning was linked to weaker functional coupling in the default and frontoparietal control networks.“Head motion was associated with decreased functional coupling in the default and frontoparietal control networks--two networks characterized by coupling among distributed regions of association cortex.”
   2. UncheckedIn this study, some brain network measures rose with head motion, including local coupling and coupling between left and right motor regions.“Other network measures increased with motion including estimates of local functional coupling and coupling between left and right motor regions--a region pair sometimes used as a control in studies to establish specificity.”

5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The entorhinal grid map is discretized

   Stensola, Stensola, Solstad, Frøland, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2012

   Recording many grid cells in single rats, the authors report that the entorhinal grid map is divided into a few discrete modules that can respond independently to changes in environment geometry.

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   1. UncheckedIn rats, recordings from up to 186 grid cells show they cluster into a few modules differing in scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta modulation.“Here we show with recordings from up to 186 grid cells in individual rats that grid cells cluster into a small number of layer-spanning anatomically overlapping modules with distinct scale, orientation, asymmetry and theta-frequency modulation.”
   2. Unchecked“These modules can respond independently to changes in the geometry of the environment.”

6. 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…”

7. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Head-direction cells recorded from the postsubiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis

   Taube, Muller and Ranck · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990

   Recording from rat postsubiculum neurons in a cylinder, the authors identified head-direction cells that fire according to the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, regardless of its location or behaviour.

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   1. Unchecked“Approximately 26% of the cells were classified as head-direction cells because they discharged as a function of the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, independent of the animal's behavior, location, or trunk position.”
   2. UncheckedIn rats, each head-direction cell's firing rate, plotted against head direction, was adequately described by a triangular function.“Plots of firing rate versus head direction showed that each firing-rate/head-direction function was adequately described by a triangular function.”
   3. UncheckedIn 24 head-direction cells from 7 rats, the directions that made cells fire most were spread evenly across the full 360-degree circle.“Results from 24 head-direction cells in 7 animals showed an equal distribution of preferred firing directions over a 360 degrees angle.”

8. 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.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The effects of changes in the environment on the spatial firing of hippocampal complex-spike cells

   Muller and Kubie · Journal of Neuroscience · 1987

   Recording hippocampal place cells in a cylinder, the authors varied the cue card, wall size and shape, floor plan and added barriers, and measured how each change altered the cells' firing fields.

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   1. UncheckedWhen the cue card on the wall was rotated, the firing fields of individual hippocampal place cells rotated by equal amounts.“Rotating the cue card produced equal rotations of the firing fields of single cells.”
   2. Unchecked“When the standard (small) cylinder was scaled up in diameter and height by a factor of 2, the firing fields of 36% of the cells observed in both cylinders also scaled, in the sense that the field stayed at the same angular position and at the same relative r…

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Conjunctive Representation of Position, Direction, and Velocity in Entorhinal Cortex

    Sargolini, Fyhn, Hafting et al. · Science · 2006

    Recording from each principal cell layer of rat medial entorhinal cortex, the authors found grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells, all modulated by running speed, which may help update grid coordinates during navigation.

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    1. UncheckedIn rats, layer II of the medial entorhinal cortex was mostly grid cells, while deeper layers mixed grid, head-direction and conjunctive cells.“Whereas layer II was predominated by grid cells, grid cells colocalized with head-direction cells and conjunctive grid × head-direction cells in the deeper layers.”

11. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    A comprehensive assessment of regional variation in the impact of head micromovements on functional connectomics

    Yan, Cheung, Kelly et al. · NeuroImage · 2013

    The study mapped how small head movements affect the resting-state fMRI signal, tested motion-correction methods, and examined how motion affects the test-retest reliability of many brain-connectivity measures.

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    1. Unchecked“Residual relationships between motion and the examined R-fMRI metrics remained for all correction approaches, underscoring the need to covary motion effects at the group-level.”
    2. UncheckedHead motion generally lowered test-retest reliability of resting-state fMRI measures, except those based on frequency, notably ALFF.“Generally, motion compromised reliability of R-fMRI metrics, with the exception of those based on frequency characteristics - particularly, amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF).”

12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    GRETNA: a graph theoretical network analysis toolbox for imaging connectomics

    Wang, Wang, Xia, Liao, Evans and He · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“After applying the GRETNA to a publicly released R-fMRI dataset of 54 healthy young adults, we demonstrated that human brain functional networks exhibit efficient small-world, assortative, hierarchical and modular organizations and possess highly connected h…

13. 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.”

14. 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.”

15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Botvinik‐Nezer, Holzmeister, Camerer et al. · Nature · 2020

    Seventy teams analysed the same fMRI dataset to test the same nine hypotheses; their results varied sizeably, and no two teams used an identical workflow.

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    1. UncheckedPrediction markets of researchers in the field overestimated how likely significant findings were, even among those with direct knowledge of the dataset.“Furthermore, prediction markets of researchers in the field revealed an overestimation of the likelihood of significant findings, even by researchers with direct knowledge of the dataset 2-5 .”

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity

    Ćirić, Wolf, Power et al. · NeuroImage · 2017

    The paper compared 14 participant-level confound regression methods in 393 youths on four benchmarks and found trade-offs, so different methods may suit different scientific goals.

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    1. UncheckedIn 393 youths, denoising methods using global signal regression minimised the link between motion and connectivity but left distance-dependent artifact.“First, methods that include global signal regression minimize the relationship between connectivity and motion, but result in distance-dependent artifact.”
    2. UncheckedCensoring methods reduced both motion artifact and its distance-dependence in connectivity, but used up additional degrees of freedom in the data.“In contrast, censoring methods mitigate both motion artifact and distance-dependence, but use additional degrees of freedom.”
    3. UncheckedConfound-regression methods that remove motion artefact less well also fail to reveal the brain's modular network structure in functional connectivity data.“Importantly, less effective de-noising methods are also unable to identify modular network structure in the connectome.”

17. Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

    Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging

    Baillet · Nature Neuroscience · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Overall, MEG contributes uniquely to our deeper comprehension of both regional and large-scale brain dynamics: from the functions of neural oscillations and the nature of event-related brain activation, to the mechanisms of functional connectivity between re…

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Reduced default mode network functional connectivity in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder

    Yan, Chen, Le Li et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019

    A consortium of 25 Chinese research groups pooled resting-state brain scans from patients with major depression and controls, and found reduced default mode network connectivity, mainly in recurrent depression.

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    1. UncheckedComparing 848 patients with major depression to 794 controls from 17 sites, the study found reduced, not increased, connectivity within the default mode network.“Instead, we found decreased DMN FC when we compared 848 patients with MDD to 794 NCs from 17 sites after data exclusion.”
    2. UncheckedIn this study, reduced connectivity within the default mode network appeared in recurrent depression but not in first-episode, drug-naïve depression.“We found FC reduction only in recurrent MDD, not in first-episode drug-naïve MDD.”
    3. Unchecked“DMN FC was also positively related to symptom severity but only in recurrent MDD.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

    Doeller, Barry and Burgess · Nature · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats' foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction.”
    2. Unchecked“The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas.”
    3. Unchecked“The effect was strongest in right entorhinal cortex, and the coherence of the directional signal across entorhinal cortex correlated with spatial memory performance.”

20. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

    Aronov, Nevers and Tank · Nature · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“We found neural representation of the entire behavioural task, including activity that formed discrete firing fields at particular sound frequencies.”