I’m thankful to my mentor, Daniel Baldauf, for his guidance and support, and to Aurelia Scarpa for her collaboration throughout this project.
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The figure shows resting-state fMRI and MEG recordings, seed-based analyses centered on the fusiform face area (FFA, red) and parahippocampal place area (PPA, blue), cortical maps highlighting distinct connectivity patterns, examples of a face-matching task and a 2-back scene task, and scatterplots showing that intrinsic network connectivity predicts individual reaction times on the corresponding behavioral tasks.
The strength of this intrinsic architecture shows a double dissociation: FFA-network connectivity specifically predicts face-task performance, while PPA-network connectivity predicts scene-task performance, and not vice versa.
Our resting-state fMRI and MEG results show that the fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA) anchor distinct spatio-temporal networks.
🧠 Distinct resting-state connectomes for face and scene perception predict individual task performance.
I’m happy to share that our paper is now published in Human Brain Mapping!
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doi.org/10.1002/hbm....
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Selective control of prefrontal neural timescales by parietal cortex Orhan Soyuhos, Marc Zirnsak, Rishidev Chaudhuri & Xiaomo Chen
The prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices are key hubs of the dorsal attention network, but how parietal input shapes prefrontal neural dynamics remains unclear. In this study, we show that parietal inactivation causally slows prefrontal neuronal timescales and selectively disrupts visual salience representation.
The prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices are key hubs of the dorsal attention network, but how parietal input shapes prefrontal neural dynamics remains unclear. Here, we show that parietal inactivation causally slows prefrontal neuronal timescales and disrupts visual salience representation.
🧠Selective control of prefrontal neural timescales by parietal cortex
I’m excited to share that our paper is now published in Nature Communications! I’m grateful to my mentors, Xiaomo Chen and Rishidev Chaudhuri, for their guidance and support.
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doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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