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187 claims from 107 papers, showing 81–100 of 107

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Connecting multiple spatial scales to decode the population activity of grid cells

   Stemmler, Mathis and Herz · Science Advances · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Reading the neural code for space: discrete scales of grid-cell activity enable goal-directed navigation and localization.”

2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A novel somatosensory spatial navigation system outside the hippocampal formation

   Long and Zhang · Cell Research · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“To our surprise, we were able to detect the full complement of spatially selective firing patterns similar to that reported in the hippocampal-entorhinal network, namely, place cells, head direction cells, boundary vector/border cells, grid cells and conjunc…

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Test–retest reliability of functional connectivity networks during naturalistic fMRI paradigms

   Wang, Ren, Hu et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the reliability of connectivity and graph theoretical measures of brain networks is significantly improved during natural viewing conditions over resting‐state conditions, with an average increase of almost 50% across various connectivity measu…
   2. Unchecked“Not only sensory networks for audio–visual processing become more reliable, higher order brain networks, such as default mode and attention networks, but also appear to show higher reliability during natural viewing.”

4. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   A diverse range of factors affect the nature of neural representations underlying short-term memory

   Orhan and Ma · Nature Neuroscience · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“We show that both sequential and nearly persistent solutions are part of a spectrum that emerges naturally in trained networks under different conditions.”

5. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Development of the default-mode network during childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

   Fan, Liao, Lei et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“We showed that the overall connectivity increased in strength from childhood to adolescence and became spatially similar to that in the young adult group (N = 61, 18-28 years of age).”
   2. Unchecked“Global and local network efficiency in the DMN also increased with age, indicating an enhanced capability in parallel information communication within the brain system.”
   3. Unchecked“Based on the divergent developmental rates of nodal centrality, we identified three subclusters within the DMN, with the fastest rates in the cluster mainly comprising the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.”

6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Intrinsic functional network architecture of human semantic processing: Modules and hubs

   Xu, Lin, Han, He and Bi · NeuroImage · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Focusing on areas consistently activated during semantic processing generated from a meta-analysis of 120 neuroimaging studies (Binder et al., 2009), we found that these regions were organized into three stable modules corresponding to the default mode netwo…
   2. Unchecked“Provincial hubs, which converge local information within each system, were also identified: the bilateral posterior cingulate cortices/precuneus, the bilateral border area of the posterior AG and the superior lateral occipital gyrus for Module DMN; the left…

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The DIRECT consortium and the REST-meta-MDD project: towards neuroimaging biomarkers of major depressive disorder

   Chen, Bin Lu, Li et al. · Psychoradiology · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Findings from the first round of analyses of the pooled repository have included alterations in functional connectivity within the default mode network, in whole-brain topological properties, in dynamic features, and in functional lateralization.”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Controversies and progress on standardization of large-scale brain network nomenclature

   Uddin, Betzel, Cohen et al. · Network Neuroscience · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“A few well-known network names (e.g., default mode network) dominated responses to the survey, and a number of illuminating points of disagreement emerged.”

9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The subsystem mechanism of default mode network underlying rumination: A reproducible neuroimaging study

   Chen, Chen, Shen et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“During rumination, within-DMN FC was generally decreased as compared to the distraction state.”
   2. Unchecked“At the subsystem level, we found increased FC between the core and medial temporal lobe (MTL) subsystem as well as decreased FC between the core and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) subsystem and within the MTL subsystem.”
   3. Unchecked“Finally, subjects' behavioral measures of rumination and brooding were negatively correlated with FC between the core and DMPFC subsystems.”

10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Reproducibility of functional brain alterations in major depressive disorder: Evidence from a multisite resting-state functional MRI study with 1,434 individuals

    Xia, Si, Sun et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We observed significant hypoactivity in the orbitofrontal, sensorimotor, and visual cortices and hyperactivity in the frontoparietal cortices in MDD patients compared to the controls.”
    2. Unchecked“These alterations are not affected by different statistical analysis strategies, global signal regression and medication status and are generally reproducible across centers.”
    3. Unchecked“Bootstrap analyses reveal that at least 400 subjects in each group are required to replicate significant alterations (an extent threshold of P < .05 and a height threshold of P < .001) at 50% reproducibility.”

11. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome

    Sun, Zhao, Liang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“After constructing a fine-grained, lifespan-wide suite of system-level brain atlases, we show distinct maturation timelines for functional segregation within different systems.”
    2. Unchecked“Lifespan growth of regional connectivity is organized along a spatiotemporal cortical axis, transitioning from primary sensorimotor regions to higher-order association regions.”

12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Does parametric fMRI analysis with SPM yield valid results?—An empirical study of 1484 rest datasets

    Eklund, Andersson, Josephson, Johannesson and Knutsson · NeuroImage · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“For a familywise significance threshold of 5%, significant activity was found in 1%-70% of the 1484 rest datasets, depending on repetition time, paradigm and parameter settings.”
    2. Unchecked“The main reason for the high familywise error rates seems to be that the global AR(1) auto correlation correction in SPM fails to model the spectra of the residuals, especially for short repetition times.”
    3. Unchecked“Significant activity was then found in 1%-19% of the datasets.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Characterizing Speed Cells in the Rat Hippocampus

    Góis and Tort · Cell Reports · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, their speed-correlated firing occurs within theta cycles, independently of theta frequency.”

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries

    Savelli, Luck and Knierim · eLife · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Although the local, geometric frame of reference often exerted the strongest control over the grids, the remote cues demonstrated a consistent, sometimes dominant, countervailing influence.”

15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Temporal fluctuations in the brain’s modular architecture during movie-watching

    Betzel, Byrge, Esfahlani and Kennedy · NeuroImage · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Applied to movie-watching data, we found that periods of high inter-subject similarity coincided with reductions in network modularity and increased connectivity between cognitive systems.”
    2. Unchecked“In contrast, low inter-subject similarity was associated with increased system segregation and more rest-like architectures.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we show that synchronous fluctuations in network architecture over time can be linked to a subset of features in the movie.”

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Large-scale neural dynamics in a shared low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics

    Song, Shim and Rosenberg · eLife · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Whole-brain dynamics traversed a common set of latent states that spanned canonical gradients of functional brain organization, with global desynchronization among functional networks modulating state transitions.”
    2. Unchecked“Neural state dynamics reflected attention fluctuations such that different states indicated engaged attention in task and naturalistic contexts, whereas a common state indicated attention lapses in both contexts.”

17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

    Bowler and Losonczy · Neuron · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We uncover distinct yet overlapping representations of task, location, and context in both MEC and LEC axons.”
    2. Unchecked“MEC transmitted highly location- and context-specific codes; LEC inputs were biased by ongoing navigational goals.”
    3. Unchecked“However, during tasks with reliable reward locations, the animals' position could be accurately decoded from either subregion.”

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward Leveraging Human Connectomic Data in Large Consortia: Generalizability of fMRI-Based Brain Graphs Across Sites, Sessions, and Paradigms

    Cao, McEwen, Forsyth et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Our results revealed overall fair to excellent reliability for a majority of measures during both rest and tasks, in particular for those quantifying connectivity strength, network segregation and network integration.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    How environment and self‐motion combine in neural representations of space

    Evans, Bičanski, Bush and Burgess · The Journal of Physiology · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“For head direction cells, direct projections from egocentric sensory representations of distal cues can help to correct cumulative errors.”
    2. Unchecked“However, the allocentric code of boundary vector cells and place cells requires consistent head‐direction information in order to translate the sensory signal of egocentric boundary distance into allocentric boundary vector cell firing, suggesting that the d…

20. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Cell type, sub-region, and layer-specific speed representation in the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

    Iwase, Kitanishi and Mizuseki · Scientific Reports · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Most speed cells located in entorhinal cortex layer 2 represented speed prospectively, whereas those in the CA1 and entorhinal cortex layers 3 and 5 represented speed retrospectively.”