Functional coactivation map of the human brain.
Understanding the interactions among different brain regions is fundamental to our understanding of brain function. Here we describe a complete map of functional connections in the human brain derived by an automatic meta-analysis of 825 neuroimaging articles, representing 3402 experiments. The likelihood of a functional connection between regions was estimated by studying the interdependence of their "activity," as reported in each experiment, across all experiments. We obtained a dense coactivation map that recovers some fundamental principles of the brain's functional connectivity, such as the symmetric interhemispheric connections, and important functional networks, such as the fronto-parietal attention network, the resting state network and the motor network.
Toro
Roberto
R
Brain & Body Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom. rto@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk
Fox
Peter T
PT
Paus
Tomás
T
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological