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ArticleNeuroImage2021

Behavioural relevance of spontaneous, transient brain network interactions in fMRI.

D Vidaurre, A Llera, S M Smith, M W Woolrich

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Article in NeuroImage, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

D VidaurreCenter for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Denmark; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, OX37JX UK; Wellcome Trust Center for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, OX37JX UK,. Electronic address: dvidaurre@cfin.au.dk.
A LleraDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 Netherlands.
S M SmithWellcome Trust Center for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, OX37JX UK.
M W WoolrichDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, OX37JX UK; Wellcome Trust Center for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, OX37JX UK.
Aarhus University · DKRadboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity of Oxford · GBWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GB

Funding

Department of HealthMedical Research Council MR/K005464/1Medical Research Council MR/L023784/2Wellcome Trust 106183/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 203139/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How spontaneously fluctuating functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals in different brain regions relate to behaviour has been an open question for decades. Correlations in these signals, known as functional connectivity, can be averaged over several minutes of data to provide a stable representation of the functional network architecture for an individual. However, associations between these stable features and behavioural traits have been shown to be dominated by individual differences in anatomy. Here, using kernel learning tools, we propose methods to assess and compare the relation between time-varying functional connectivity, time-averaged functional connectivity, structural brain data, and non-imaging subject behavioural traits. We applied these methods to Human Connectome Project resting-state fMRI data to show that time-varying fMRI functional connectivity, detected at time-scales of a few seconds, has associations with some behavioural traits that are not dominated by anatomy. Despite time-averaged functional connectivity accounting for the largest proportion of variability in the fMRI signal between individuals, we found that some aspects of intelligence could only be explained by time-varying functional connectivity. The finding that time-varying fMRI functional connectivity has a unique relationship to population behavioural variability suggests that it might reflect transient neuronal communication fluctuating around a stable neural architecture.

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IndividualityBehaviorBrainConnectomeHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingNerve Net

Identifiers

PMID33421594
PMCPMC7994296
OpenAlexW3119110823

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