Task-free MRI predicts individual differences in brain activity during task performance

Tavor I., Jones OP., Mars RB., Smith SM., Behrens TE., Jbabdi S.

Every brain is different We all differ in how we perceive, think, and act. What drives individual differences in evoked brain activity? Tavor et al. applied computational models to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project. Brain activity in the “resting” state when subjects were not performing any explicit task predicted differences in fMRI activation across a range of cognitive paradigms. This suggests that individual differences in many cognitive tasks are a stable trait marker. Resting-state functional connectivity thus already contains the repertoire that is then expressed during task-based fMRI. Science , this issue p. 216

DOI

10.1126/science.aad8127

Type

Journal article

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Publication Date

2016-04-08T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

352

Pages

216 - 220

Total pages

4

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