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187 claims from 107 papers, showing 61–80 of 107

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Toward open sharing of task-based fMRI data: the OpenfMRI project

   Poldrack, Barch, Mitchell et al. · Frontiers in Neuroinformatics · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“Clustering analyses show that the similarity relations between statistical maps have a somewhat orderly relation to the mental functions engaged by the relevant tasks.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

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

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

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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. Unchecked“GSR improved behavioral prediction accuracies by an average of 64% and 12% in the GSP and HCP datasets respectively.”

3. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

   Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
   2. Unchecked“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex

   Savelli, Yoganarasimha and Knierim · Hippocampus · 2008

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   1. Unchecked“A number of cells that resembled classic hippocampal place cells in the small box were revealed to be grid cells in the larger box.”
   2. Unchecked“Remapping of the spatial response in the area corresponding to the small box after the removal of its walls was prominent in most spatially modulated cells.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Mitigating head motion artifact in functional connectivity MRI

   Ćirić, Rosen, Erus et al. · Nature Protocols · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“This protocol can be used to reduce motion-related variance to near zero in studies of functional connectivity, providing up to a 100-fold improvement over minimal-processing approaches in large datasets.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus

   Bonnevie, Dunn, Fyhn et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“First, hippocampal inactivation gradually and selectively extinguished the grid pattern.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Reproducibility of R‐fMRI metrics on the impact of different strategies for multiple comparison correction and sample sizes

   Chen, Bin Lu and Yan · Human Brain Mapping · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Small sample sizes (e.g., < 80 [40 per group]) not only minimized power (sensitivity < 2%), but also decreased the likelihood that significant results reflect “true” effects (PPV < 0.26) in sex differences.”

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

   Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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   1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
   2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective

   Elam, Glasser, Harms et al. · NeuroImage · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“The "HCP-style" neuroimaging paradigm has emerged as a set of best-practice strategies for optimizing data acquisition and analysis.”

10. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

    Two types of asynchronous activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons

    Ostojic · Nature Neuroscience · 2014

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    1. Supported · 71%“For strong couplings, we find that the network at rest displays rich internal dynamics, in which the firing rates of individual neurons fluctuate strongly in time and across neurons.”

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

    Yoon, Buice, Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“Among grid cells with similar spatial periods, the population activity was confined to lie close to a two-dimensional (2D) manifold: grid cells differed only along two dimensions of their responses and otherwise were nearly identical.”

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

    Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
    2. Unchecked“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

13. 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.”

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders

    Segal, Parkes, Aquino et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Normative models indicated that person-specific deviations from population expectations for regional GMV were highly heterogeneous, affecting the same area in <7% of people with the same diagnosis.”

15. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Cognitive Architecture of Spatial Navigation: Hippocampal and Striatal Contributions

    Chersi and Burgess · Neuron · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“The resulting architecture includes striatal reinforcement learning based on egocentric representations of sensory states and actions, incidental Hebbian association of sensory information with allocentric state representations in the hippocampus, and arbitr…

16. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Shearing-induced asymmetry in entorhinal grid cells

    Stensola, Stensola, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Reversing the ellipticity analytically by a shearing transformation removes the angular offset.”

17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Episodic memory: Neuronal codes for what, where, and when

    Sugar and Moser · Hippocampus · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Such information originates from (a) spatially modulated neurons in medial entorhinal cortex, including grid cells, which provide a stable and universal positional metric of the environment; (b) a continuously varying signal in lateral entorhinal cortex prov…

18. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization

    Cueva and Wei · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Surprisingly, we find that grid-like spatial response patterns emerge in trained networks, along with units that exhibit other spatial correlates, including border cells and band-like cells.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Extracting grid cell characteristics from place cell inputs using non-negative principal component analysis

    Dordek, Soudry, Meir and Derdikman · eLife · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Both numerical results and analytic considerations indicate that if the components of the feedforward neural network are non-negative, the output converges to a hexagonal lattice.”
    2. Unchecked“Without the non-negativity constraint, the output converges to a square lattice.”
    3. Unchecked“Consistent with experiments, grid spacing ratio between the first two consecutive modules is −1.4.”

20. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Cognitive task information is transferred between brain regions via resting-state network topology

    Ito, Kulkarni, Schultz et al. · Nature Communications · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we report that the transfer of diverse, task-rule information in distributed brain regions can be predicted based on estimated activity flow through resting-state network connections.”
    2. Unchecked“Further, we find that these task-rule information transfers are coordinated by global hub regions within cognitive control networks.”