Experimental Brain Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
242(5), P. 1101 - 1114
Published: March 14, 2024
Abstract
Under
what
conditions
can
prefrontal
cortex
direct
the
composition
of
brain
states,
to
generate
coherent
streams
thoughts?
Using
a
simplified
Potts
model
cortical
dynamics,
crudely
differentiated
into
two
halves,
we
show
that
once
activity
levels
are
regulated,
so
as
disambiguate
single
temporal
sequence,
whether
contents
sequence
mainly
determined
by
frontal
or
posterior
half,
neither,
depends
on
statistical
parameters
describe
its
microcircuits.
The
tends
lead
if
it
has
more
local
attractors,
longer
lasting
and
stronger
ones,
in
order
increasing
importance.
Its
guidance
is
particularly
effective
extent
cortices
do
not
tend
transition
from
state
their
own.
result
may
be
related
enforcing
temporally-oriented
schemata
driving
sequences
unlike
atemporal
“context”
contributed
hippocampus.
Modelling
mild
(vs.
posterior)
lesion
offers
an
account
mind-wandering
event
construction
deficits
observed
patients.
Movie-watching
is
a
central
aspect
of
our
lives
and
an
important
paradigm
for
understanding
the
brain
mechanisms
behind
cognition
as
it
occurs
in
daily
life.
Contemporary
views
ongoing
thought
argue
that
ability
to
make
sense
events
‘here
now’
depend
on
neural
processing
incoming
sensory
information
by
auditory
visual
cortex,
which
are
kept
check
systems
association
cortex.
However,
we
currently
lack
how
patterns
thoughts
map
onto
different
when
watch
film,
partly
because
methods
sampling
experience
disrupt
dynamics
activity
movie-watching.
Our
study
established
novel
method
mapping
at
moments
does
not
time
course
or
movie-watching
experience.
We
found
highlighted
engagement
with
multi-sensory
features
film
episodic
features,
regions
cortex
were
more
active
subsequent
memory
movie
was
better—on
other
hand,
periods
intrusive
distraction
emerged
within
frontoparietal
system
reduced.
These
results
highlight
critical
role
play
multi-modal
provide
evidence
reducing
films.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
119(51)
Published: Dec. 12, 2022
When
listening
to
spoken
narratives,
we
must
integrate
information
over
multiple,
concurrent
timescales,
building
up
from
words
sentences
paragraphs
a
coherent
narrative.
Recent
evidence
suggests
that
the
brain
relies
on
chain
of
hierarchically
organized
areas
with
increasing
temporal
receptive
windows
process
naturalistic
narratives.
We
hypothesized
structure
this
cortical
processing
hierarchy
should
result
in
an
observable
sequence
response
lags
between
networks
comprising
during
narrative
comprehension.
This
study
uses
functional
MRI
estimate
use
intersubject
cross-correlation
analysis
capture
network
connectivity
driven
by
shared
stimulus.
found
fixed
lags-on
scale
several
seconds-starting
early
auditory
areas,
followed
language
attention
network,
and
lastly
default
mode
network.
gradient
is
consistent
across
eight
distinct
stories
but
absent
data
acquired
rest
or
using
scrambled
story
stimulus,
supporting
our
hypothesis
construction
gives
rise
internetwork
lags.
Finally,
build
simple
computational
model
for
neural
dynamics
underlying
nested
features.
Our
simulations
illustrate
how
gradual
accumulation
within
boundaries
linguistic
events,
accompanied
increased
activity
at
each
level
hierarchy,
can
give
observed
lag
gradient.
Psychological Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
34(3), P. 326 - 344
Published: Jan. 3, 2023
When
recalling
memories,
we
often
scan
information-rich
continuous
episodes,
for
example,
to
find
our
keys.
How
does
brain
access
and
search
through
those
memories?
We
suggest
that
high-level
structure,
marked
by
event
boundaries,
guides
us
this
process:
In
computational
model,
memory
scanning
is
sped
up
skipping
ahead
the
next
boundary
upon
reaching
a
decision
threshold.
adult
Mechanical
Turk
workers
from
United
States,
used
movie
(normed
boundaries;
Study
1,
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
131, P. 110952 - 110952
Published: Jan. 26, 2024
Thoughts
and
moods
constituting
our
mental
life
incessantly
change.
When
the
steady
flow
of
this
dynamics
diverges
in
clinical
directions,
possible
pathways
involved
are
captured
through
discrete
diagnostic
labels.
Yet
a
single
vulnerable
neurocognitive
system
may
be
causally
psychopathological
deviations
transdiagnostically.
We
argue
that
language
viewed
as
integrating
cortical
functions
is
best
current
candidate,
whose
forms
breakdown
along
its
different
dimensions
then
manifest
symptoms
–
from
prosodic
abnormalities
rumination
depression
to
distortions
speech
perception
verbal
hallucinations,
meaning
content
delusions,
or
disorganized
formal
thought
disorder.
Spontaneous
connected
provides
continuous
objective
readouts
generating
highly
accessible
bio-behavioral
marker
with
potential
revolutionizing
neuropsychological
measurement.
This
argument
turns
into
transdiagnostic
‘L-factor’
providing
an
analytical
mechanistic
substrate
for
previously
proposed
latent
general
factors
psychopathology
(‘p-factor’)
cognitive
functioning
(‘c-factor’).
Together
immense
practical
opportunities
afforded
by
rapidly
advancing
natural
processing
(NLP)
technologies
abundantly
available
data,
suggests
new
era
translational
psychiatry,
which
both
rethought
together.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
34(4), P. 699 - 714
Published: Jan. 11, 2022
Abstract
Recent
fMRI
studies
of
event
segmentation
have
found
that
default
mode
regions
represent
high-level
structure
during
movie
watching.
In
these
regions,
neural
patterns
are
relatively
stable
events
and
shift
at
boundaries.
Music,
like
narratives,
contains
hierarchical
(e.g.,
sections
composed
phrases).
Here,
we
tested
the
hypothesis
brain
activity
in
reflect
music.
We
used
to
record
from
25
participants
(male
female)
as
they
listened
a
continuous
playlist
16
musical
excerpts
additionally
collected
annotations
for
by
asking
separate
group
mark
when
meaningful
changes
occurred
each
one.
then
identified
temporal
boundaries
between
using
hidden
Markov
model
compared
location
human
annotations.
multiple
with
significant
matches
observer-identified
boundaries,
including
auditory
cortex,
medial
prefrontal
parietal
angular
gyrus.
From
results,
conclude
both
higher-order
sensory
areas
contain
information
relating
Moreover,
this
study
overlap
previous
perception
movies
audio
network.
How
does
the
representation
of
naturalistic
life
events
change
with
age?
Here,
we
analyzed
fMRI
data
from
414
children
and
adolescents
(5-19
years)
as
they
watched
a
narrative
movie.
In
addition
to
changes
in
degree
inter-subject
correlation
(ISC)
age
sensory
medial
parietal
regions,
used
novel
measure
(between-group
ISC)
reveal
age-related
shifts
responses
across
majority
neocortex.
Over
course
development,
brain
became
more
discretized
into
stable
coherent
shifted
earlier
time
anticipate
upcoming
perceived
event
transitions,
measured
behaviorally
an
age-matched
sample.
However,
hippocampal
boundaries
actually
decreased
age,
suggesting
shifting
division
labor
between
episodic
encoding
processes
schematic
representations
ages
5
19.
Imaging Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
1, P. 1 - 21
Published: Oct. 19, 2023
Abstract
Recent
studies
have
shown
that
functional
connectivity
can
be
decomposed
into
its
exact
frame-wise
contributions,
revealing
short-lived,
infrequent,
and
high-amplitude
time
points
referred
to
as
“events.”
Events
contribute
disproportionately
the
time-averaged
pattern,
improve
identifiability
brain-behavior
associations,
differences
in
their
expression
been
linked
endogenous
hormonal
fluctuations
autism.
Here,
we
explore
characteristics
of
events
while
subjects
watch
movies.
Using
two
independently-acquired
imaging
datasets
which
participants
passively
watched
movies,
find
synchronize
across
individuals
based
on
level
synchronization,
categorized
three
distinct
classes:
those
at
boundaries
between
during
do
not
all.
We
boundary
events,
compared
other
categories,
exhibit
greater
amplitude,
co-fluctuation
patterns,
temporal
propagation.
show
underlying
events1
is
a
specific
mode
involving
activation
control
salience
systems
alongside
deactivation
visual
systems.
movie,
hand,
display
pattern
time-locked
movie
stimulus.
Finally,
found
subjects’
time-varying
brain
networks
are
most
similar
one
another
these
synchronous
events.