Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Cognitive task information is transferred between brain regions via resting-state network topology

  • Takuya Ito,
  • Kaustubh R. Kulkarni,
  • Douglas H. Schultz,
  • Ravi D. Mill,
  • Richard H. Chen,
  • Levi I. Solomyak,
  • Michael W. Cole

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01000-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Resting-state functional connections have been associated with cognitive abilities but it is unclear how these connections contribute to cognition. Here Ito et al present a new approach, information transfer mapping, showing that task-relevant information can be predicted by estimated activity flow through resting-state networks.