Yang BZ, Paolicelli R, Sforazzini F, Weinhard L, Bolasco G, Pagani F, Vissosktsy A, Bifone A, Gozzi A, Ragozzino D, Gross C Deficient neuron - microglia signaling results in
impaired functional brain connectivity and social behavior.
To study how music preferences might
affect functional brain connectivity — the interactions among separate areas of the brain — Burdette and his fellow investigators used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which depicts brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.
In other research projects, Burdette and colleagues at the School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina - Greensboro have found that trained music conductors are likely to be better at combining and using auditory and visual clues than people without musical training; that activity in brain areas associated with vision decreases during tasks that involve listening; and that different levels of complexity in music can have different effects
on functional brain connectivity.
They used MRI scanning to look at
the functional brain connectivity patterns between the two activities.
«These findings extend our present knowledge of
functional brain connectivity, specifically linking brain regions previously established to function in self - referential cognition to regions indicated in the cognitive process of self - disclosure.»
«Now we can design interventions that take into account an individual's
functional brain connectivity and the respects in which people differ in their approach to decision - making.»
Barbey's group is further studying how individual differences in
functional brain connectivity are shaped by learning and experience.
Functional brain connectivity can be estimated in a variety of ways, for example through computing cross-correlations in the time or frequency domain, mutual information or spectral coherence.
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functional brain connectivity in 64 adolescents participating in a longitudinal community study.