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Robust and Stable Small-World Topology of Brain Intrinsic Organization during Pre- and Post-Task Resting States

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Brain Informatics (BI 2011)

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Brain functional network studies have demonstrated the small-world topology as the nature of large-scale spontaneous brain activity. Studies have also revealed that the temporal coherence of spontaneous activity could be reshaped during task-dependent (or post-task) resting states within local spatial patterns such as task-related and the default-mode networks. However, to our best knowledge, it is still a lack of rigorous investigations that whether the small-world topology of spontaneous intrinsic organization remains robust and stable during different resting states. To address the problem, we recorded blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals from two rests (namely, pre- and post-task resting states) before and after a simple semantic-matching task, and investigated the preceding task influences on the topology of the large-scale spontaneous intrinsic organization during the post-task resting state. The major findings are that the small-world configuration of spontaneous intrinsic organization remains robust and stable during resting states regardless of preceding task influences.

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  1. International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China

    Zhijiang Wang, Jiming Liu, Ning Zhong, Yulin Qin & Haiyan Zhou

  2. Beijing Municipal Lab of Brain Informatics, China

    Zhijiang Wang, Jiming Liu, Ning Zhong, Yulin Qin, Haiyan Zhou & Kuncheng Li

  3. Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Dept. of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  5. Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Yulin Qin

  6. Dept. of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, China

    Kuncheng Li

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Wang, Z., Liu, J., Zhong, N., Qin, Y., Zhou, H., Li, K. (2011). Robust and Stable Small-World Topology of Brain Intrinsic Organization during Pre- and Post-Task Resting States. In: Hu, B., Liu, J., Chen, L., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain Informatics. BI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23605-1_16

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