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Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy
Recent studies have shown that the brain functional connectome constitutes a unique fingerprint that allows the identification of individuals from a group. However, what information encoded in the brain that makes us unique remains elusive. Here, we addressed this issue by examining how individual i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36188171 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.982905 |
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author | Zhang, Juan Zhuang, Liping Jiang, Jiahao Yang, Menghan Li, Shijie Tang, Xiangrong Ma, Yingbo Liu, Lanfang Ding, Guosheng |
author_facet | Zhang, Juan Zhuang, Liping Jiang, Jiahao Yang, Menghan Li, Shijie Tang, Xiangrong Ma, Yingbo Liu, Lanfang Ding, Guosheng |
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description | Recent studies have shown that the brain functional connectome constitutes a unique fingerprint that allows the identification of individuals from a group. However, what information encoded in the brain that makes us unique remains elusive. Here, we addressed this issue by examining how individual identifiability changed along the language hierarchy. Subjects underwent fMRI scanning during rest and when listening to short stories played backward, scrambled at the sentence level, and played forward. Identification for individuals was performed between two scan sessions for each task as well as between the rest and task sessions. We found that individual identifiability tends to increase along the language hierarchy: the more complex the task is, the better subjects can be distinguished from each other based on their whole-brain functional connectivity profiles. A similar principle is found at the functional network level: compared to the low-order network (the auditory network), the high-order network is more individualized (the frontoparietal network). Moreover, in both cases, the increase in individual identifiability is accompanied by the increase in inter-subject variability of functional connectivities. These findings advance the understanding of the source of brain individualization and have potential implications for developing robust connectivity-based biomarkers. |
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spelling | pubmed-95214892022-09-30 Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy Zhang, Juan Zhuang, Liping Jiang, Jiahao Yang, Menghan Li, Shijie Tang, Xiangrong Ma, Yingbo Liu, Lanfang Ding, Guosheng Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience Recent studies have shown that the brain functional connectome constitutes a unique fingerprint that allows the identification of individuals from a group. However, what information encoded in the brain that makes us unique remains elusive. Here, we addressed this issue by examining how individual identifiability changed along the language hierarchy. Subjects underwent fMRI scanning during rest and when listening to short stories played backward, scrambled at the sentence level, and played forward. Identification for individuals was performed between two scan sessions for each task as well as between the rest and task sessions. We found that individual identifiability tends to increase along the language hierarchy: the more complex the task is, the better subjects can be distinguished from each other based on their whole-brain functional connectivity profiles. A similar principle is found at the functional network level: compared to the low-order network (the auditory network), the high-order network is more individualized (the frontoparietal network). Moreover, in both cases, the increase in individual identifiability is accompanied by the increase in inter-subject variability of functional connectivities. These findings advance the understanding of the source of brain individualization and have potential implications for developing robust connectivity-based biomarkers. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9521489/ /pubmed/36188171 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.982905 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Zhuang, Jiang, Yang, Li, Tang, Ma, Liu and Ding. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Human Neuroscience Zhang, Juan Zhuang, Liping Jiang, Jiahao Yang, Menghan Li, Shijie Tang, Xiangrong Ma, Yingbo Liu, Lanfang Ding, Guosheng Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
title | Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
title_full | Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
title_fullStr | Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
title_full_unstemmed | Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
title_short | Brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
title_sort | brain fingerprints along the language hierarchy |
topic | Human Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36188171 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.982905 |
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