Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Uncovering hidden brain state dynamics that regulate performance and decision-making during cognition

  • Jalil Taghia,
  • Weidong Cai,
  • Srikanth Ryali,
  • John Kochalka,
  • Jonathan Nicholas,
  • Tianwen Chen,
  • Vinod Menon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04723-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Brain activity is driven, in part, by external stimuli and demands, but internal brain states also change over time. Here, the authors use a novel Bayesian algorithm to track dynamic transitions between hidden neural states in human brain activity and to relate brain dynamics with behavior.