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They then tested the added effect of scrubbing after each method.","gist":"The paper compares two ways of removing nuisance signals from resting-state fMRI, tissue-mean regression and aCompCor, and tests whether 'scrubbing' of high-motion data adds benefit after each.","meaning":"Head movement in the scanner can distort resting-state fMRI measures of how brain regions are connected, and scrubbing means discarding the affected time points. The claim says the value of scrubbing depends on the cleaning method used beforehand. 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