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Functional Specialization of Parallel Distributed Networks Revealed by Analysis of Trial-to-Trial Variation in Processing Demands

View ORCID ProfileLauren M. DiNicola, Oluwatobi I. Ariyo, View ORCID ProfileRandy L. Buckner
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.20.488923
Lauren M. DiNicola
1Department of Psychology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Oluwatobi I. Ariyo
1Department of Psychology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Randy L. Buckner
1Department of Psychology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
3Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Abstract

Multiple large-scale networks populate human association cortex. Here we explored the functional properties of these networks by exploiting trial-to-trial variation in component processing demands. In two behavioral studies (N=136 and N=238), participants quantified strategies used to solve individual task trials that spanned remembering, imagining future scenarios, and various control trials. These trials were also all scanned in an independent sample of functional MRI participants (N=10), each with sufficient data to precisely define within-individual networks. Stable latent factors varied across trials and correlated with trial-level functional responses selectively across networks. One network linked to parahippocampal cortex, labeled Default Network A (DN-A), tracked scene construction, including for control trials that possessed minimal episodic memory demands. To the degree a trial encouraged participants to construct a mental scene with vivid imagery and awareness about spatial locations of objects or places, the response in DN-A increased. The juxtaposed Default Network B (DN-B) showed no such response but varied in relation to social processing demands. Another adjacent network, labeled Frontoparietal Network B (FPN-B), robustly correlated with trial difficulty. These results support that DN-A and DN-B are specialized networks differentially supporting information processing within spatial and social domains. Both networks are dissociable from a closely juxtaposed domain-general control network that tracks cognitive effort.

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Functional Specialization of Parallel Distributed Networks Revealed by Analysis of Trial-to-Trial Variation in Processing Demands
Lauren M. DiNicola, Oluwatobi I. Ariyo, Randy L. Buckner
bioRxiv 2022.04.20.488923; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.20.488923
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Functional Specialization of Parallel Distributed Networks Revealed by Analysis of Trial-to-Trial Variation in Processing Demands
Lauren M. DiNicola, Oluwatobi I. Ariyo, Randy L. Buckner
bioRxiv 2022.04.20.488923; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.20.488923

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