The relationship between individual variation in macroscale functional gradients and distinct aspects of ongoing thought
Neuroimage June 22, 2020 Brontë Mckeown, Will Strawson, Hao-ting Wang et al. 102 citations
People whose brain connectivity patterns make the sensorimotor system most distinct from the visual system are more likely to report thoughts about solving problems or goals and less likely to report thoughts about the past. This finding comes from a study where participants underwent resting-state fMRI and then completed a questionnaire about their thoughts during the scan. A non-linear dimension reduction algorithm identified components explaining the greatest variance in whole-brain connectivity patterns. The results suggest that unique patterns of experience are linked to distinct neurocognitive profiles, with unimodal systems playing an important role.