The prediction of brain activity from connectivity: advances and applications

M Bernstein-Eliav, I Tavor - The Neuroscientist, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The human brain is composed of multiple, discrete, functionally specialized regions that are
interconnected to form large-scale distributed networks. Using advanced brain-imaging …

Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus

NA Ratan Murty, S Teng, D Beeler, A Mynick… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The fusiform face area responds selectively to faces and is causally involved in face
perception. How does face-selectivity in the fusiform arise in development, and why does it …

Categorical representation from sound and sight in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind

S Mattioni, M Rezk, C Battal, R Bottini… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Is vision necessary for the development of the categorical organization of the Ventral
Occipito-Temporal Cortex (VOTC)? We used fMRI to characterize VOTC responses to eight …

Individual subject approaches to map** sensory-biased and multiple-demand regions in human frontal cortex

DC Somers, SW Michalka, SM Tobyne… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Deep imaging reveals multiple sensory-biased regions in lateral frontal
cortex.•Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity confirms sensory-biased organization.• …

Prediction of individualized task activation in sensory modality-selective frontal cortex with 'connectome fingerprinting'

SM Tobyne, DC Somers, JA Brissenden, SW Michalka… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
The human cerebral cortex is estimated to comprise 200–300 distinct functional regions per
hemisphere. Identification of the precise anatomical location of an individual's unique set of …

Multimodal foundation models are better simulators of the human brain

H Lu, Q Zhou, N Fei, Z Lu, M Ding, J Wen, C Du… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Multimodal learning, especially large-scale multimodal pre-training, has developed rapidly
over the past few years and led to the greatest advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite …

Direct structural connections between auditory and visual motion-selective regions in humans

A Gurtubay-Antolin, C Battal, C Maffei, M Rezk… - Journal of …, 2021 - jneurosci.org
In humans, the occipital middle-temporal region (hMT+/V5) specializes in the processing of
visual motion, while the planum temporale (hPT) specializes in auditory motion processing …

Predicting an individual's dorsal attention network activity from functional connectivity fingerprints

DE Osher, JA Brissenden… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The cortical dorsal attention network (DAN) is a set of parietal and frontal regions that
support a wide variety of attentionally demanding tasks. Whereas attentional deployment …

[HTML][HTML] Plastic reorganization of the topological asymmetry of hemispheric white matter networks induced by congenital visual experience deprivation

S Jiao, K Wang, Y Luo, J Zeng, Z Han - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Congenital blindness offers a unique opportunity to investigate human brain plasticity. The
influence of congenital visual loss on the asymmetry of the structural network remains poorly …

Pulvinar response profiles and connectivity patterns to object domains

H Wen, Y Song, M Liang, P Zhang, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - jneurosci.org
Distributed cortical regions show differential responses to visual objects belonging to
different domains varying by animacy (eg, animals vs tools), yet it remains unclear whether …